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Jack Knight heard the gossip and took it to heart. Making good in his home town became the challenge. His program: get out of debt, then pay as you go. The Knight success story is impressive...
...Press for the publisher of a country newspaper. . . . His readers do not want a free press. They want a tactful press. . . . In the past few weeks my newspaper has considered it wise to omit at least a half dozen top local news stories, although the facts were common gossip. To have printed these items would have cost me friends and money. . . . Stories which would cost me friends and money would in a short time put me out of business...
...published author by the time he was 20-though much of his town-gossip writing was pale as the moon in the morning-Irving was popular, attractive, the bearer of a charmed life from the time he suddenly got the idea for The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (he was crossing a bridge in Westchester) to the time he was captured by Mediterranean pirates. With his successful older brothers making life easy for him, Irving took his lawyer's career lightly. He had only one client, and neglected him. But he knew the old Dutch legends of the Hudson, cheerfully...
...party where I saw at least a dozen Italian people I knew. . . . Every one longed to know what people were wearing in America. ... It ... might have been Paris, or London, or New York - any place where you find those inter nationals who are still interested in inter national fashion, gossip and an international way of life. The setting was beautiful. Shining silver, crystal, well-groomed footmen, candlelight, soft music. The women were dressed with taste, with charm...
...Then the gossip is true...