Word: ghostwritten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jackson was dissenting sharply from a Supreme Court ruling last week, disbarring an aged patent lawyer from practice before the U.S. Patent Office because he had submitted a ghostwritten article as evidence. He was also pointing up an old Washington custom: ghostwriters had become as much a part of the furniture of modern government as the Mimeograph machine. Many a legislator was as helpless without his ghost as Jack Benny without his gagmen. They appeared on congressional payrolls as "secretaries," in executive departments as "administrative assistants" and "information specialists." And on the Supreme Court itself, some Justices' legal styles...
...People spread Barbara's breathlessly ghostwritten story all over Page One. Said she: "I feel bitter about what he [Haigh] has done but I cannot lose my love for him. If he could walk out a free man, I would walk beside him . . . Never once did he do anything of which my mother would be ashamed." But News of the World's 8,000,000 readers would have to wait for Haigh's own story. Until his appeal had been heard, English law, safeguarding his rights to the end, would not permit Haigh to prejudice his case...
Dunninger shrugs and asks: "If other magicians can do it, why don't they copy me? You can steal anything a man possesses but you can't steal his personality. Am I right or wrong?" Walter Gibson, who has ghostwritten for Dunninger as well as for such other "greats" as Houdini, Blackstone and Thurston, thinks Dunninger is right. "All magicians mix showmanship with their magic," says Gibson. "Dun ninger's on top because he uses only 5% magic and 95% showmanship...
...state that my book, The Case Against the Admirals, was ghostwritten for an Air Force general who disowned it . . . The book was written for my signature alone; it was checked to the complete satisfaction of the publishers; and it was published as a contribution to the fight for unification...
...TIME [Sept. 20] there is an article about "Bootsie" (Mrs. McDonnell Cassini Hearst) which goes on to say that she has welcomed another newcomer to the Hearst fold . . . You state that the column is ghostwritten. I write my own column. I do not have a ghost writer. I have Mr. Charles Gentry, who helps me get news, types my copy, and goes to some places for me as I can't be in two places at the same time. In the second place, you said it started without a byline for the first few days. I had a byline...