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editor of POST, and both told me to go to work myself. I sat for days
before a typewriter, helpless. Oh, I pecked away a bit, and
gradually under the encouragement of Bye I got a bit of confidence.
Then Bobbs Merrill advanced me $1000 on outline. Then there was
a call to rush the book. I began to work in shifts, working a few
hours, sleeping a few hours, going out of my room only to buy
some eggs, bread, coffee and cans of tomatoe juice. Jesus, the stuff
I turned out. Sometimes only a thousand words, but often as many
as 10,000 a day. As the chapters appeared I took them to Bye who
read them and offered criticism. Anyway I completed the book and
boiled down parts of it for the articles all in 7 weeks.
The Bobbs-Merrill Company, of Indianapolis, published the 375-page
book on June 1, but parts of it had already appeared in three articles at
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