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Last week E. P. Button & Co., Inc. hoped that it had the answer. Last year it received a manuscript from tall, red-blonde, good-looking Nancy Bruff, 29, wife of Manhattan investment broker Edwin Thurston Clarke. Titled The Manatee, it was a tale of the life and loves of a whaler. Immediately Button's sensed another Forever Amber...
...Author Bruff had written, and failed to publish, six previous novels. She had put her husband to sleep reading them to him. But she had kept him wide awake with The Manatee. An acquaintance made a businesslike suggestion: hire a press agent to sell the Bruff product in a businesslike way. Her husband approved. She hired Hollywood's Russell Birdwell for $50,000 for two years. Chief theme of his publicity: Miss Bruff, a free and gifted soul, had escaped or been expelled from almost every school she had attended...
Married. Brigadier General Robert Wood Johnson, 50, president of Johnson & Johnson (surgical dressings), head of WPB's Smaller War Plants Corp.; and Evelyn Vernon Bruff, brunette nightclub dancer; two weeks after his second divorce, day after her first; in Salt Lake City...
Guitars--A. D. Allen '01, H. Chappell '01, G. D. Guthrie '01S., A. J. Bruff '02S., R. C. Levering...