May Win Pulitzer Lewis Biography Took Nine Years
Berkeley AP Mark Schorer, UC Berkeley English chair, spent nine years researching and writing Sinclair Lewis: An American Life. McGraw-Hill bought the project in 1952 with a three year deadline. he missed several deadlines before delivering 200 pages in 1957. The biography, based on thousands of pages and interviews, could win a Pulitzer Prize in biography.
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Berkeley
Calif
Mark Schorer
Schorer
Sinclair Lewis
University of California
McGraw-Hill
Lewis
Sauk Center
Minn
Sauk City
Wis
Paperback Best Sellers List Items
The list features multiple book titles with authors including Robbins, Peacock, Hoover, Metalious, Statler, Madlver, Wilgon, Fitzgerald, O Hara, and Mann. It highlights popular fiction and notable works such as The Carpet Baggers and Judgment at Nuremberg among others.
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Fitzgerald
O'Hara
Nuremberg
Mann
Book critics number one bestsellers list excerpt
The excerpt lists fiction titles Franny and Zooey by Salinger and The Agony and the Ecstasy by Stone with rankings. It also notes A Prologue to Love by Caldwell and Chairman of the Bored by Streeter. On non fiction, My Life in Court by Nizer appears, along with The Making of the Preicent 1980 by White, Living Free by Adamson, and Calorie Don't Count by Taller.
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Franny
Zooey
Salinger
Stone
Caldwell
Streeter
Nizer
White
Adamson
Taller
Arizona statehood stamp honors desert night scene
The 4 cent Arizona statehood commemorative stamp, released in Phoenix, features a giant saguaro with flowering arm and a desert night motif. Engraving bleeding extends into the gutter, a result of Bureau experiments, designed by James M Chemi and Jimmie E Thms. Belgium also issues a six value anti tuberculosis set titled Mother and Infant with works by Navez Permeke Van de Weyden Memling Rubens and proceeds supporting the fund.
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Arizona
Phoenix
Desert
U. S
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
James M. Chemi
Jimmie E Thms
Phoenix Gazette
Belgium
F. J. Navez
C. Permeke
R. van de Weyden
H. Memling
P. P. Rubens
Anti-Tuberculosis Fund
Camera Corner Slide Show Improved By On The Spot Sounds
Photographer adds on the spot sounds to still pictures with a portable tape recorder for home slides. Editing a well told story and synchronizing sound with slides creates a lively AV show.
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London
Legally Speaking Witness Duty for Citizens
Public service article urges citizens to testify truthfully in lawsuits. It explains sworn oath, direct and cross examination, and rules of evidence like the hearsay rule. It advises preparing with the calling lawyer, staying calm, listening, speaking clearly, and answering directly.
Yugoslav Student Unusual Fellow
Mirko Malinovski, a Yugoslav student at Skoplje Law University, writes faster and more legibly with his mouth after losing both arms at age nine in a train accident. A World War II partisan, he became a marksman and fired by loading with his mouth and triggering with his right elbow.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Mirko Malinovski
Skoplje Law University
Mirko
To the facts. Be helpful, not fun ny.
The prompt provides a directive to summarize a sanitized OCR newspaper fragment into a title and summary. It instructs strict formatting, entity density, and tone preservation, with constraints on length, sentence structure, and factual focus. It emphasizes completing a concise T and S pair without extra text.
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Pulitzer
Robbins Valhalla
Peacock
Hoover
Metalious
Statler
Madlver
Wil
Woz
Statehood
By Syd Kronish
AP News
Irving Desfor
Legally
Butler County Bar Association
Ered
Armstrong
Sandran
Corton
Caiprolan
Middletown
South Verity
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