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AVOID BORING PEOPLE: Lessons from a Life in ScienceThey employed the same lawyer that Jacqueline Kennedy had unsuccessfully used to block publication of The Death of a President, William Manchester's book on her husband's assassination. Both Tom Wilson and I noted that this New York hired gun was careful not to specify that he considered my book libelous. Nevertheless, we feared that President Pusey would feel himself involved in something untoward, and Tom later unilaterally decided that HUP would move ahead only with the Harvard president's approval. I also should have realized that Peter Pauling would feel a filial duty to send my manuscript to his father. After reading it, Linus fired off an angry letter to Tom Wilson calling Base Pairs БЂњa disgraceful example of malevolence and egocentricityБЂ«He wrote demanding that I remove the lines БЂњLinus's screwy chemistryБЂ«and БЂњLinus looking like an ass.БЂ«These were phrases I knew good taste would lead me to delete before the manuscript went to the printer. But since they were true, I was loath to remove them before absolutely necessary ...» |
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