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...Queen herself called "the Royal Mob" of princelings clustering about Victoria's opulent patronage. They were an oddly innocent lot of hobbledehoys, but dedicated to their business-jobs and titles, endless meals and dressing up, places to live and places to die. Papa ("Der schöne Uhlan," the Mob called him) got himself appointed Honorary Colonel of the Post Office Volunteers. He dutifully went under canvas with his pugnacious battalion, but he was pretty much of a failure, declined into rose pruning, and died after a sad "softening of the brain...
Report to Uhlan: "Stupid fairy stories...
...Uhlan to Author: "We are delighted with your children's stories...
Publisher Uhlan was raised in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen, got into "the business of getting something out of someone for a price" while living in city convalescent homes after a crippling attack of polio at the age of four. "With the contents of food packages my mother had sent me," he wrote in his vanity-published autobiography, Rogue of Publishers' Row, "I inveigled a fascinating storyteller among the older boys into spinning yarns for me. A chocolate bar was good for Jack and the Beanstalk; a banana would buy Bluebeard or The King of the Golden...
...Uhlan blandly admits that his authors can expect little more than self-satisfaction out of having him publish their work. "All I offer is immortality,'' he says. "Most of the authors are over 70, and they know they'll get it soon...