Word: dears
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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ALTHOUGH I'VE long been aware that some adults have the habit of giving themselves Christmas presents, it seems strange that a publishing house should do the same. But why else would Scribner's have published as gratuitous a volume as Dear Scott-Dear Max if not to put under the Christmas tree at the home office? The majority of the material has already appeared in Fitzgerald's and Perkins's collected letters, so that the only purpose of this book is to bring the correspondence between Scribner's famous author and Scribner's famous editor together under the same...
...Well, dear readers, our typesetting equipment decided to take an unexpected rest last night, so we had to shift home bases. As a result, the typeface for page one is slightly different from our usual papers, and the sports copy was cut back. The type for today's front page was set at the Harvard Independent Press, to whom we are grateful in this era of sudden reconciliations...
...Pretty Patty Sines of West Virginia, in her mid-20s and traveling alone, quickly became the belle of the bateau, bouncing around barefooted and in hot pants by day and in clinging dresses at night. She so contrasted with the other passengers that one American matron inquired: "Tell me, dear, did the French Line pay your way on board to liven things...
...Something of a personage on Ibiza (he sports an English shooting jacket and a monocle), De Hory confided that it was "possible but not probable" that anyone could have forged a nine-page letter from Howard Hughes. "He would have to be a genius," De Hory whispered. "And Cliff, dear boy, is no genius at anything." Whether Cliff is guilty or innocent, the remark has some force...
Young wiener wolfers today, say C.U. testers, are eating products that are only 60% as nutritious as the ones that carried dear old Dad through the Depression. The cost of protein in frankfurters (mainly beef and pork) is now $7 to $8 per pound-about one-third the current price of silver...