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DOUGLAS (Lord Alfred) Complete Poems. Mint in Dust Wrapper...
When asked about testimonial writing, she said, "I've never got even a cellophane wrapper from the Lucky Strike people, but if I pose for a bathing-suit ad, they always send a couple of dozen suits around. All I have to do is to sign a stereotyped letter...
...father in a Manhattan slum. By the time he reached high school he had started that series of heterogeneous occupations which occur painfully at the outset of many a cinematic career. He was a copy boy for the New York Sun; a department store bundle-wrapper; a librarian; a neophyte painter. He left Columbia University to be a chorus boy. From this traditionally effeminate occupation, he presently was graduated to vaudeville, musical comedy (Grand Street Follies)., legitimate plays (Women Go on Forever and Outside Looking In for which he was selected because he had red hair). His 1930 performance, opposite...
...various offices for 18 years. Then he started school again, on winter evenings at Washington's George Washington University. He spent his summer nights for four years writing The Lady Who Came to Stay. When he sent the unsolicited MS to Publisher Knopf he enclosed a self-addressed return wrapper. The wrapper was not used. Author Spencer now lives in Indianapolis...
...months ago Erwin, Wasey received the Camel account. They immediately launched a $1,000,000 campaign running for eight days in 1,713 dailies, 2,139 weeklies, 426 college and financial papers, which promised prizes of $50,000 for the best 200-word letters on Camel's new cellophane wrapper. Last week's activity in Winston-Salem seemed proof of Erwin, Wasey's costly pudding...