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...Miss Fineholt said brightly. "The fun of this work is seeing what material comes...
...Ruth Mehrtens spent days interviewing their subject, even following him on a trip to the Bahamas to finish their research. Later, after the novel Melville Goodwin, USA was published, Marquand made a confession to Gissen. He had used them as an inspiration for his characters Phil Bentley and Myra Fineholt, the writer-researcher team in his novel. However, Marquand assured Gissen that Ruth Mehrtens was not at all like his researcher Myra Fineholt. "Miss Mehrtens," he said, "is a charming girl...
Working now as one of TIME's correspondents in our Chicago office, Ruth Mehrtens would agree with Marquand's Myra Fineholt on one point-the fun of her work is seeing what material comes in. Ruth has been a correspondent in the Chicago bureau since January 1951. A Smith College graduate, she started with TIME as a researcher in 1946, worked in almost every section of the magazine before she was asked if she would like to be a writer. Her name was switched to the "Contributing Editors" slot on the masthead and there she stayed-writing Foreign...