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During her stay in Nassau, Miss Mehrtens found out, too, that Mrs. Marquand had once applied for a job as a TIME Inc. researcher. "I said I could speak five languages and I thought they would snap me up," she told Miss Mehrtens, "but just about the time they were getting around to thinking about it I got married...
...this time Marquand, contrary to prior warnings from some sources, was a completely cooperative subject, and Gissen and Miss Mehrtens returned to New York refreshed and certain that they had their story...
When Books editor Gissen, who gets around as much as any good reporter, left John Marquand in Nassau to fly back to New York to write his story, the author asked to have lunch with him and Miss Mehrtens in Manhattan on the day TIME and the Marquand cover would appear on the newsstands. "Thinking about it on the way home," said Gissen, "it occurred to me that I would have to meet him with a copy of TIME in my hand and that that might turn out to be the bravest thing I've ever...
POINT OF No RETURN (559 pp.)-John P. Marquand- Little, Brown...
Life Without Props. For almost two years Novelist John Phillips Marquand has been burrowing at the roots of Charley Gray's discontent. Next week, in his latest and best novel, Point of No Return, he gives his readers no pat answer. But, as a good novelist should, he gives them a shrewd, revealing picture of a broad segment of U.S. society...