Word: denmanson
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...amused at your footnote on Mrs. Agnes Denmanson of Seattle who in 1933 was quoted as saying "Anyone who drinks beer would commit murder...
...happen to be Mrs. Denmanson. Was city editor of the now extinct Seattle Star at the time. Few controversial letters were arriving for the "From Our Readers" column, and one of our many successive editors asked me to whip out a few phony letters to bring in replies from readers...
...Denmanson correspondence to the Star followed, and brought in hundreds of letters from irate beer drinkers . . . The general pattern had the mythical subscriber writing she had seen a man enter a bar and stagger out after one beer. Each letter ended "Anyone who drinks beer would commit murder. Mr. Denmanson agrees with...
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