JAMES N. YOUNG - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 05/28/1945 - HFSID 31797
Price: $220.00
JAMES N. YOUNG
He signs a typed letter (1945), thanking entertainment columnist Louis Sobol
for giving his book "the No. 1 plug of all time."
Typed Letter signed: "James N. Young", 1 page, 8½x11. New York,
N.Y., 1945 May 28. On letterhead of Collier's magazine to Louis
Sobol, the New York Journal-American, New York, N.Y. In full: "My God!
My God! My God! I have just read what you had to say about my little book, and I
am still rather more than slightly dazed. Have you read the little thing? Or did
Damon Runyon or Ed Anthony or Quent Reynolds or Mark Hanna or Walter Davenport
or some other big-time friend of mine say: "Say, Louis. Want to do a good deed?
Okay, there's a guy at Collier's named Jim Young, and he's written some sort of
a book called '101 Plots Used and Abused', and he needs help. Give him a plug.
Regardless of what prompted the writing of them golden words, I want you to know
I am deeply grateful. Ten thousand miles deeply! I want to send you a copy of
the small opus. Please let me know where to send it. I don't want it to fail to
reach you. And one thing more. Any time (in the very near future) you're free
for lunch, or dinner, or five-o'clock cocktails, I'd like to meet you, so that I
can thank you in person for the No. 1 plug of all time. Sinerely". James
Nicholas Young served on the staff of US Army General George Pershing during
World War I. A newspaper reporter in Baltimore and Los Angeles, he went on to
serve for three decades as editor of Collier's. His book mentioned
in this letter still gets cited as a humorous summary of - actually 107 - "tired
and tiresome" story plots. Young's 1954 essay, "Toward a Far, Far Better
World," was read on a Veterans Day edition of the National Public Radio "This I
Believe" series in 2008. Louis Sobol was a veteran entertainment columnist
who must have recognized the "used and abused" plots in Young's book.Horizontal and vertical fold creases. Pencil notes (unknown hand) at upper
right and lower left margins. Right edge chipped, notched and toned. Soiled and
creased.
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