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...Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and demand for his books revived. But Publishers Farrar & Rinehart had thrown away their chance to make any money on Fletcher's autobiography. The week before, they had sold their remaining stock of Life Is "remainders" My named Song to Max a Salop. dealer in book Max Salop, literary junk man, is known to few outside the book business. But in side the business, he is a familiar legend...
...short, swarthy, 47-year-old immigrant with curly black hair, smoky eyes, a terrific Bronx-Jewish accent, and a terrific publicity phobia, he is married, the father of two children, Jeanette and Mildred, lives in The Bronx. Legends about Max Salop in the book business are matched only by Sam Goldwyn legends in the movies...
Tallest tale in the Salop apocrypha is the story that he cannot read or write, has only recently learned to sign his name...
...could make of the U. S., for the necessary information does not exist. Entitled lugubriously WHERE THE SHADOW FALLS: Unemployment At A Glance, the map shows from official statistics of the Ramsay MacDonald Labor Government exactly the percentage of unemployment in each and every British county, not forgetting "Salop" the concise if nonsensical abbreviation for "Shropshire...