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...explanation was simple: the article was ghostwritten and the Secretary had never even looked it over. Said he: "If I had known about that section in the piece personally, I would not have cleared it. When it was explained to me, however, I could not be too severe, because the fact was uncovered independently by the writer who worked on the piece...
Pleased and surprised as a child was Governor Ratner when Legionnaires gave him an ovation. To newsmen, from whom he has never hidden the fact that most of his speeches are ghostwritten, the Governor confided: "This one I did my self. I even typed the manuscript. No it." one except my wife saw it before I gave More than one man's dramatic change of heart contributed to this conversion...
...five years ago, he has sedulously and successfully cultivated the notion that his out-rourings represent art of a very high order. A great wind-sawer at rehearsals, Director Oboler has worked with such lights as Nazimova, Bette Davis, considers himself a sort of Radio Reinhardt. Betimes he has ghostwritten a biography of the late Tex Rickard, recently adapted Escape for the screen, is now under commitment to write the screen play for The Flying Yorkshireman. When he discusses radio, he is fond of such pronunciamentos as: "The very first premise for writing good radio should be actually having something...
...That Peary never admitted that his book on the attainment of the Pole was ghostwritten...
Historian Menke, who got his start in journalism at the turn of the Century because he could define the word "mollycoddle''† better than anyone else in Cleveland, has ghostwritten for 175 U. S. celebrities, including Josephus Daniels, Samuel Gompers, Cardinal Gibbons, Jack Dempsey. Bob ("Believe It or Not") Ripley says Frank Menke can answer 4,000,000 questions. One bit of information baseball officials wish Historian Menke had not dug up: there is no proof that Cooperstown, N. Y. was the birthplace of baseball, nor that Abner Doubleday, its accredited founder, ever played the game...