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Word: cordner (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...green, musty, picture-plastered office on Manhattan's lower Fifth Avenue, he was busy autographing first editions of his eleventh book, Little Bits About Big Men. In a heavy Scotch burr he admitted that real credit for its appearance was due to his 73-year-old housekeeper, Mary Cordner, who for years had deplored the fact that all of his five sons but the last (12-year-old Wallace) had had books dedicated to them. B. C. could not withstand such an argument indefinitely. Besides, there was more need today for business humanizing than ever. And with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PUBLISHING: Tycoon's Pal | 12/2/1940 | See Source »

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