Marilyn Hocks Books

Marilyn Monroe has given the University the cold shoulder.

Unable to pick one institution over another to receive the original Max Reinhardt manuscripts she bought at auction earlier this winter, Miss Monroe has decided to sell them to Reinhardt's son, Gottfried.

"I feel the placement of the books should be the decision of Gottfried Reinhardt. He insists on reimbursing me for the auction price," the blond actress said.

Although disappointed, William B. Van Lenner, curator of the Theater Collection in Houghton Library, refuses to believe that the sale was part of a publicity stunt. "She was in a jam and this was the only way out," he said.