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11/6/44, on Philco Radio Hall of Fame expresses the hope that “our bonds of understanding forged in war will long outlast it, so that in the world to come we shall not again in a common cause have to mingle our blood, sweat, and tears.”amazon.com/Ronald-Colman-Hol…
The last chapter is on Trump. I wrote it in such a way that I don’t think it will become dated. amazon.com/Making-American-P…
November 6, 1956: I’m so emotionally drained after this week…the Hungarian and Suez affairs have deeply depressed me. I was almost physically ill after reading the typed last words from Hungary yesterday before the Russians took over.” upress.state.ms.us/Books/T/T…
Where to Begin?
With the poet’s birth in the Jamaica Plain section of Boston on October 27, 1932? Or with her parents, Otto and Aurelia, married on January 4, 1932? Or perhaps, in Plath’s case, with the death of her father on November 5, 1940? upress.state.ms.us/Books/T/T…
11/3/61: Pleased with BOMC selection of The Reivers. To Bennett Cerf: “I wont work until I get hot on something…I will wait until the stuff is ready, until I can follow instead of trying to drive it.” upress.state.ms.us/Books/W/W… More on The Reivers: upress.state.ms.us/Books/F/F…
November 3, 1914, medial report: transferred to hospital by ambulance suffering from a “contusion of r. ankle.”
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November 3, 1956: writes a “bad political poem”upress.state.ms.us/Books/S/S…
November 2, 1955: Sees The Cabinet of Dr. Calgari and a Chaplin film: upress.state.ms.us/Books/S/S…; the important of film to Plath: upress.state.ms.us/Books/T/T…
A figure at home with both princes and the people they rule. Herbert Cohn in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle (11/2/38) called Ronald Colman’s Francois Villon a “complex composite of philosopher, statesman, crusader and charming lover.”amazon.com/Ronald-Colman-Hol…
November 2-3, 1935: Joins brother Dean performing as “The Flying Faulkners” in an air show. upress.state.ms.us/Books/W/W…; for more on Faulkner and flying: upress.state.ms.us/Books/F/F…
I’d like to know the story behind this stained glass windows in Mariner’s Church in Detroit. Perhaps I will be able to tell it in my forthcoming book, A Detroit Odyssey.
11/1/48: Wants coat like Malcolm Cowley’s: “white or near white corduroy, bellows pockets…loose belt…vent in back so I can ride a horse in it. Brooks said they had not had them in two years. The next time you are in there…see if they can…make me one.”amazon.com/William-Faulkner-…
1924-25, reviews, publicity, ads for A Thief in Paradise, The Sporting Venus, His Supreme Moment, Her Sister From Paris, The Dark Angel, Stella Dallas, Lady Windermere’s Fan, Kiki, announcements on 11/1 for Romola, His Supreme Moment, The Dark Angel. amazon.com/Ronald-Colman-Hol…
November 1, 1961: Consigns to book dealer original manuscript of The Colossus for sale, sees two Edward Albee one-act plays, The American Dream and The Death of Bessie Smith. upress.state.ms.us/Books/S/S…
If you go to the following link listing books on the presidency, you will see my book tagged as “thought-provoking.” Thank you amazon. amazon.com/s?k=making+the+am…
October 31, 1914: Ankle injured during a shell burst as he was advancing to a front line trench. amazon.com/Ronald-Colman-Hol…
October 31, 1960: Heinemann publishes The Colossus and Other Poems upress.state.ms.us/Books/S/S…
October 31, 1945: Children gather at Rowan Oak to hear ghost stories. upress.state.ms.us/Books/W/W…