Word: ghostwritten
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...That Peary never admitted that his book on the attainment of the Pole was ghostwritten...
Historian Menke, who got his start in journalism at the turn of the Century because he could define the word "mollycoddle''† better than anyone else in Cleveland, has ghostwritten for 175 U. S. celebrities, including Josephus Daniels, Samuel Gompers, Cardinal Gibbons, Jack Dempsey. Bob ("Believe It or Not") Ripley says Frank Menke can answer 4,000,000 questions. One bit of information baseball officials wish Historian Menke had not dug up: there is no proof that Cooperstown, N. Y. was the birthplace of baseball, nor that Abner Doubleday, its accredited founder, ever played the game...
...line script mill turned out at mass production prices Just Plain Bill, Second Husband, John's Other Wife, Romance of Helen Trent, Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons, Lorenzo Jones, Backstage Wife, Our Gal Sunday, Young Widder Brown, Stella Dallas, Alias Jimmy Valentine, David Harum. All these were ghostwritten by some 14 anonymous authors in the names of Adman Frank Hummert and his wife, Anne...
...origins was first suggested by Infeld. But Albert Einstein had been long fondling such a notion, readily agreed. Although he now speaks English quite well, Einstein is still reluctant to write in this new language. So the actual writing was done by Infeld. But it is not simply a ghostwritten job. Their friends, who did not know about the book for some time after it was actually under way, say that it is a "real project of collaboration." The scope, form and content of the book were agreed on and mapped out in careful detail...
...STREET or STRANGE FACES-Louis Joseph Vance-Lippincott ($2). A posthumous book apparently not ghostwritten, uses literary shop talk and buried treasure as stage properties...