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...illusions about his stories' immortality, although he thinks that Book No. 17, New York: Confidential! (Ziff-Davis; $2.75), may last a little longer than some of the others. It is a cynical, side-of-the-mouth guidebook that prices everything from pizzerias to call girls; Lait wrote it with his nightclub columnist and protégé, Lee Mortimer (the man Sinatra socked). Having sold 20,000 copies in its first fortnight, and sold to the movies for $50,000, it is off to a better start than Lait's The Big House (200,000 copies...
Miss West, her face hidden behind dark glasses to protect herself from the glare, stood on a table to watch the Dewey demonstration. Her convention reports read a little like an eyewitness account by a visitor from Mars who had read a guidebook before coming. Pink-faced, bushy-browed Westbrook Pegler, stoutly filling a grey suit, chatted amiably with his dandiacal little ex-boss, publisher Roy Howard, who wore his familiar matching shirt, bow tie and breast-pocket handkerchief. Cartoonist David Low, looking just like his self-caricatures, but larger, made quick reminders of the shape of a jowl...
...past seven years, John has been exploring his own legend-spawning life, in an autobiography published piecemeal in Cyril Connolly's highbrow British magazine Horizon. The published fragments read sometimes like a sophisticated traveler's guidebook, sometimes like a recital of Important People I Have Known, sometimes like Major Hoople, sometimes like crumbs from Winston Churchill's table. But the mass of entertaining trivia is shot through with eloquence, wit, and an artist's imagery...
...Commerce Department, in a helpful little guidebook for veterans in search of a job, pointed out that it is risky to start a restaurant, because 80% fail or are sold out within five years. But it hastily added that running a restaurant can be good business and that the habit of eating will continue to grow...
...office in New York, Cowan went back to show-packaging-producing and selling programs complete from stars to sound cues. Senator was his second postwar production, second sale. (The first: a transcribed series, Murder at Midnight.) To shape it, Cowan laid out $5,000. Chief budget items: 1) a guidebook on local and state government written for the show by Historian M. R. Werner (Bryan, Tammany Hall), 2) three top scripters, topped by Frank Telford (Mollė Mystery Theater...