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...they sign a contract with a publisher who specializes in would-be authors. For a few hundred dollars (and up), anybody, if he shops far enough, can have the thrill of seeing his stuff in print. He may not get much for his money -often not more than a stack of cheaply printed, poorly bound books dumped on his doorstep. His disappointment may be keen if the come-on has convinced him that his book is going to sell. But at least he is in print...
...real risk of prosecution for his part in the conspiracy when he volunteered these names and facts in 1939. He again risked prosecution, as a perjurer, in 1948, when he swore several times that he had no espionage material, then reversed himself and produced a four-foot stack of secret Government telegrams and typescripts. Says he: "I never asked for immunity. Nor did anyone at any time ever offer me immunity, even by a hint or a whisper." For weeks it was widely thought that Chambers, not Hiss, would be indicted...
...creation-the Mono. Lisa. This painting, which hangs in the Louvre, is probably as well known as any in existence-though few admirers pretend to grasp it fully. A portrait of the wife of a Florentine merchant named Francesco del Giocondo, it has been the subject of a towering stack of critical works. Summarizing the comments of the centuries, Johns Hopkins Professor George Boas once concluded, simply and truly, that each age sees the Mono, Lisa...
...Hampshire result raised the question of how the two victors stack up against each other. A nationwide Gallup Poll published just before the New Hampshire primary asked citizens to choose between Eisenhower and Kefauver. Result: Ike 57%, Kefauver 32%, undecided 11%. A Taft v. Kefauver poll taken about the same time showed Kefauver 47%, Taft 41%, undecided...
Fateful Footnote. At Columbia he studied furiously. Saturdays, before the library closed, he would take out a stack of books and tote them home; he knew he could not possibly read them all, but he wanted at least to look at them and read the table of contents. He took John Erskine's General Honors Course, the first "great books" course in the U.S. (it was never known by that name...