Word: reviewmen
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Dates: during 1958-1958
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Angel at Their Shoulders. From the first, Review's editors waved away stuffy illusions about the dignity expected of "pure" literature, promoted Paris Review as if it were Paris Confidential. Reviewmen dashed about Paris after dark armed with gluepot and brush, illegally plastered posters on handy walls (one ended up on the lavatory ceiling of the Café du Dôme); others peddled subscriptions from door to door. One early salesman: England's waspish young man Colin (The Outsider) Wilson, who absentmindedly went off with a week's collections. Circulation reached the impressive figure (among...
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