Word: janet
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...real name is Janet Planner. She was born in Indianapolis 47 years ago. In her teens Janet tried the University of Chicago; tried by the University, she returned to Indianapolis. From 1915 to 1917 she held a job as cinema critic (she thinks she was the first reporter with that title) on the Indianapolis Star. In 1921 she arrived in Paris, inquisitive, amiable, amused. In 1925 she wrote her first letter for The New Yorker...
...AMERICAN IN PARIS-Janet Planner-Simon & Schuster...
...well-paid job and one that Janet Planner soon liked so well that she gave up cocktails, developed a working method as scholarly as a Ph.D.'s. Her letters were laid out a week in advance, researched by herself and an informal staff of friends, checked thoroughly, painfully polished in draft after draft. Among her best friends were (and are) Margaret Anderson and Jane Heap, publishers of the once-famed Little Review in Greenwich Village. Last Christmas she spent with her mother and her sister, Poet Hildegarde Planner, at Altadena, Calif. Last week she stopped in Manhattan...