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unearths some literary gems.
From "Shop Talk," by E. B. White:
***[Columnist Lucius] Beebe, whose text the picture illustrates was telling how he stayed sensibly in town during a hot weekend, and how pleasant this experience was. Nobody even phoned, he wrote. Not even [press agent] Dick Maney phoned, he continued. And the Tribune, suiting the action to the word, gravely produced a picture of Mr. Maney and ran it—a man whose only immediate news value was that he had not phoned Lucius Beebe over a hot weekend.***A course in ghostwriting opens this month at American University, Washington, D.C., and youngsters whose dream is to put words into somebody else's mouth may further their ambition by enrolling.***
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