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What do you mean, it created a sensation? How did it create a sensation.

A literary sensation.

A literary sensation--not in the pornographic field.

It wasn't a pornographic book at all. It was very delicate, as was Miss Wilhelm when we met her.

Now, how about Mary Astor?

Mary Astor--what year was this?

1936 I have written down from the scrapbook.

Was it? Well, one of the people that I grew up with in public schools was a girl named Marian Spitzer. She, Howard Dietz and I were great friends when we were kids. Dietz and I were going to Townsend Harris High School. She went to Wadleigh High School, which was the girls high school; but we got to know each other quite well. Marian knew that she wanted to be a writer, just like Dietz knew that he wanted to be a playright and I knew that I wanted to be a publisher. We knew where we were going--we three kids. Marian made it and married a boy named Harlen Thompson, who wrote that song called “I Love You, I Love