From Smithsonian, Hemingway's Cuba, Cuba's Hemingway: His last personal secretary returns to Havana and discovers that the novelist's mythic presence looms larger than ever; and Before the Revolution: Socialites and celebrities flocked to Cuba in the 1950s. Fifty years ago Jack Kerouac's dazzling novel On the Road became the blueprint for the Beat generation and shaped America's youth culture for decades. It influenced scores of artists, musicians and film-makers, but how does it resonate with young people today? Discovered: Kerouac "cuts": The original, 120-ft typewritten roll of the beat generation literary classic is being republished, complete with material too hot to handle in 1957. Ray Bradbury, Norman Lloyd and Norman Corwin: Aging with grace, these 3 men of letters snap fingers in the face of time. For her

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