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This folio includes all-new songs and photos from the 2001 Broadway revival. Titles are: About a Quarter to Nine * Dames * Forty-Second Street * Getting Out of Town * Go into Your Dance * The Gold Diggers' Song (We're in the Money) * I Only Have Eyes for You * Keep Young and Beautiful * Lullaby of Broadway * Overture - Pretty Lady/With Plenty of Money and You * Shadow Waltz * Shuffle Off to Buffalo * There's a Sunny Side to Every Situation * You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me * Young and Healthy.
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Anthony Bianco's Ghosts of 42nd Street is the dramatic and definitive story of this legendary strip, told through the people involved in its founding and its current renaissance -- from the bosses of the world's top media companies to premier property developers to the city's powerful political interests to the small-business proprietors, drug dealers, pimps, pornographers, and slumlords who have all called it home.
Larger-than-life characters such as Oscar Hammerstein I, Florenz Ziegfeld, Billy Minsky, and other show business stars bring the street's history to life. But at the heart of this fast-paced urban adventure is 42nd Street itself and its ten theaters:
• the Apollo • the Lyric • the Harris
• the New Victory • the New Amsterdam
• the Times Square • the Selwyn
• the Liberty • the Empire • the Rialto
Beginning in 1899, a burst of construction on the mid-Manhattan block of West 42nd Street between Broadway and Eighth Avenue created the greatest concentration of theaters America had ever seen, giving birth to today's Broadway theater district. When the New York Times built a slender twenty-five-story tower on an odd, triangular site formed by the convergence of 42nd Street, Broadway, and Seventh Avenue, the city named the square facing the tower Times Square, which quickly became New York's gathering place for all important civic events.
In its heyday, 42nd Street was excessive, expensive, unpredictable, loud, fun, and, at times, dangerous. Forty-second Street's Golden Age of entertainment ended by 1930 and the street quickly devolved from the nation's first show business capital into its first retail porn center, becoming even more infamous for its squalor. Its denizens rechristened 42nd Street as "Forty Deuce" or simply "the Deuce." This downward trend continued into recent decades, when 42nd Street was largely demolished and rebuilt in the largest urban renewal project in New York history, creating the Times Square we know today -- still known far and wide as the "Crossroads of the World."
Part urban history, part cultural analysis, part business study, Ghosts of 42nd Street shows how this tiny, magical patch of midtown Manhattan looms large in the popular imagination as America's most culturally important thoroughfare.
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A sweeping survey of NY theatrical history.......2005-06-21
Anthony Bianco describes the history of Times Square from its first theater in 1904 to the present day. He walks us through the era of vaudeville and burlesque, introduces us to memorable characters such as Diamond Jim Brady and (much later) Marty Hodas the porn entrepreneur, all the way through to the redevelopment of the 1990s.
The theme of Bianco's book is that even at its height, Times Square was seedy and disreputable. For a theater to show a Shakepearean play had always been the exception rather than the norm. The neighborhood has always been a center for prostitution of all kinds, and the theaters have always been testing the limits of what society considers decent. Any stage show was successful in proportion to the amount of skin exposed. When movies took over, the theaters of Times Square showed second-rate action movies (known as "grind theaters") while the more highbrow movies opened elsewhere in the city. In short, the Times Square of today is more respectable than it had ever been at any point in its history.
My complaint about the book is that there are no maps and only 33 period b&w photos, which are not nearly enough. Much of the book describes particular buildings in great detail without a single illustration of those buildings. The reader is expected to know that the 200 block of 42nd Street is the historic heart of the theater district and that the 300 block has always been beyond the beaten path. Detailed maps would have improved this book enormously.
THE book to read about 42nd Street.......2004-08-07
42nd Street's spectacular renaissance has unleashed a torrent of recent books chronicling the thoroughfare's rise, fall and re-birth. One of these, "Down 42nd Street," was a huge disappointment, littered with factual inaccuracies and nearly incoherent in its recounting of the epic 1990s re-development saga. (See my March 30, 2002 review of this book for specifics.)
Anthony Bianco's "Ghosts of 42nd Street" suffers from no such shortcomings. Indeed, one of this book's central strengths is its detailed "insider's" account of the street's 1990s metamorphosis. Rebecca Robertson is depicted as a genuine heroine, envisioning earlier than most - certainly before anyone in the government bureaucracy - that the rehabilitation of the turn-of-the-century theaters would be the linchpin in restoring 42nd Street's luster. Robertson was prescient in foreseeing that office development would follow the theaters' revival.
42nd Street has always been filled with characters and we meet many of them. For example, there's Marty Hodas, a struggling 1960s entrepreneur who emerges as "The King of Peeps," before running afoul of federal tax laws. Then there's Seymour Durst, the obstreperous developer who waged a clever campaign to block re-development, but whose family would build the first new office tower.
There's a lot of interesting New York City history here as well. We learn, for example, that the financier August Belmont was the catalyst behind changing the name Long Acre Square to Times Square. The New York Times publisher Adolph Ochs ostensibly had nothing to do with it, though it was Ochs himself who conceived the New Year's Eve ball dropping festivities in 1906. There's also a vivid account of the demise of legendary architect, bon vivant and habitual lady's-man Sanford White at the hands of a jealous husband.
If you read only one book about 42nd Street, this is certainly the one.
A Welcome Departure.......2004-05-12
Let me get my one complaint out of the way. This book should be titled, "Ghosts of WEST 42nd Street" because it just about completely ignores 42nd Street east of 6th Avenue.
That said, Anthony Bianco's "Ghosts of 42nd Street: A History of America's Most Infamous Block" is a welcome departure from the spate of books about 42nd Street that seem to come out at a rate of one a month. Mr. Bianco's approach is all-encompassing, not just focusing on the crime or the theater, the squalor or the glamour. There is an encyclopedic amount of information here, as he spans the decades. And yet, the book is very compressed and easy to get through. Mr. Bianco's writing is very fluid.
The cast of characters is familiar, as are many of the anecdotes. However, there are plenty of tales that will surprise the reader, even one that is very familiar with the history of this piece of midtown real estate. Pick up a copy and you will enjoy.
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- One in a thousand! - A father's day story
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1000 On 42nd Street
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face off.......2007-05-12
this is an excellent book for any artist who wants to explore the variety of facial anatomy and expression - a bargain.
what were the previous reviewers smoking?.......2003-01-11
After reading 3 ravings reviews on this book on Amazon, I special ordered it at local [store] before making the purchase, luckily I flipped through the book before making a big mistake. Yes I can understand the significance of the 42nd street project in NY. Like alot of people, I love to sit somewhere on a weekend and people watch, guessing and pondering what each person is up to and doing at that moment. This book does NOT deliver any of that.
Besides 1 page in the beginning of the book and 3 or 4 at the end, the rest of the pages are filled with face only portraits on white backdrop, so no real street scene were included. Personally I just couldn't see the purpose on that. Yes, the pictures were later enlarged and posted as posters on the wall along the street, however, as content for a book? it lacks everything that would provide a detail time, place, date, emotional state of that person at the moment the pictures were taken. I would have thought the author, as a professional photographer, could have either used selective focus or even necessary later use photoshop to add the white drop. As for the information on each individual on that day, each picture usually has less than 7 words subtext description.
I am not trying to talk trash about the author or previous reviewers who seems to enjoy the book (one persons father was in the book, so the book has personal siginificance). But if you are looking to learn photography techniques, composition, or even light coffee book reading, forget it, none of that is in this book.
A wonderful book........2001-08-06
This book is perfect. i cannot think of any improvements that cd have been made. the design is perfect. the photographs are perfect. Selkirk is a marvelous portrait photographer. I loved the book. I actually came upon the project at 42nd st. by accident and thought, WHAT IS THIS? The book is wonderful to have and wonderful to give. It is a very optimistic book.
A wonderful book........2001-08-06
This book is perfect. i cannot think of any improvements that cd have been made. the design is perfect. the photographs are perfect. Selkirk is a marvelous portrait photographer. I loved the book. I actually came upon the project at 42nd st. by accident and thought, WHAT IS THIS? The book is wonderful to have and wonderful to give. It is a very optimistic book.
One in a thousand! - A father's day story.......2001-06-01
After buying this book, turn to picture 863- Carl Schlesinger. There you will see my father's picture. This fascinating book contains 1000 pictures of people and animals who happened to walk down 42nd St. in New York on a few selected days. We serendipitously found it this past Sunday on the way to a tap dance review co-produced by my father. My 16 year old glanced at the cover in a museum gift shop, picked it up and it opened automatically to my father's picture. What an amazing coincidence...or was it? Even more amazing is that my father does remember having his picture taken, did not know what for and hadn't seen the book. Each photo has a caption stating the name,town of residence and purpose for being on 42nd St. that day. My father lives in New Jersey and was in the City because he was doing final preparations for his tap show in 1998. Out of all the days we could have been in NY and out of all the museum gift shops we could have visited, out of all the books my daughter could have chosen and out of all of the 1000 photos she could have opened to, she chose this book and that photo. Buy this book. You may find someone you know. It's great fun and will create good conversation.
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I Would've Paid More for White Space & Color.......2002-01-16
This is a thorough, fascinating and informative book. However, I have two major complaints:
1. The pictures are generally laid out two to a page. With the extensive text, the pages look crowded. A larger page size and wider border would've made the book easier to read.
2. All the postcards are pictured in black and white. Many of the postcards were originally in color and don't translate well into black and white; the pictures just don't look as sharp. It's disappointing to see photos of Times Square from its color-splashed neon heyday rendered in greyscale.
The topic and text deserve a better designed treatment.
What a marvelous book!.......2001-01-04
128 pages of vintage (and a few new) postcards, with well-written explanatory captions. All of New York's 42nd Street (from river to river), concentrating on the Times Square area.
A very depressing book, like those "Then and Now" photobooks. New York was such a beautiful city 100 years ago, and it is heartbreaking to see the grand hotels, magnificent mansions, quaint brownstones and restaurants lost forever.
Nicely priced--there is no reason not to snap this one up, and I do hope more are to follow in a series!
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In Down 42nd Street, Marc Eliot offers a fascinating and pugnacious history of what may be the most famous street in the United States--or at least the most famously decadent one. "By 1980, [New York's] fabled Manhattan crossroads had become ground zero for the manufacture, exhibition, and distribution of pornography, drug dealing, pedophilia, prostitution, and violent street crime," he writes. Eliot describes 42nd Street's development over time, and he's not afraid to go after a few sacred cows. Here's what he says about the "greatest generation" right after the Second World War: "GIs returning to the U.S. via New York City's harbors and ports were point men in the postwar sex and drug revolution." Today, of course, 42nd Street is a very different place, thanks to a conscious cleanup effort that has brought in Disney and other corporations. Eliot views this trend with a distaste that other may not feel: by the end of the 20th century, he notes with irritation, "42nd Street had become a horizontal Statue of Liberty, a place native New Yorkers avoided like Yellow Fever." All in all, Down 42nd Street is an excellent piece of opinionated urban history told with verve. --John Miller
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In Down 42nd Street, Marc Eliot offers a fascinating and pugnacious history of what may be the most famous street in the United States--or at least the most famously decadent one. "By 1980, [New York's] fabled Manhattan crossroads had become ground zero for the manufacture, exhibition, and distribution of pornography, drug dealing, pedophilia, prostitution, and violent street crime," he writes. Eliot describes 42nd Street's development over time, and he's not afraid to go after a few sacred cows. Here's what he says about the "greatest generation" right after the Second World War: "GIs returning to the U.S. via New York City's harbors and ports were point men in the postwar sex and drug revolution." Today, of course, 42nd Street is a very different place, thanks to a conscious cleanup effort that has brought in Disney and other corporations. Eliot views this trend with a distaste that other may not feel: by the end of the 20th century, he notes with irritation, "42nd Street had become a horizontal Statue of Liberty, a place native New Yorkers avoided like Yellow Fever." All in all, Down 42nd Street is an excellent piece of opinionated urban history told with verve. --John Miller
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unreadable drivel.......2006-08-21
After being enthralled by Luc Sante's "Low Life" (The best NYC history ever written) I'd hoped perhaps for some gems of storytelling about this street's amazing past, but all I found were tedious commentaries with all the style and allure of a real estate listing.
It's hard to believe that this author has received acclaim for other writings, as the style is devoid of any vibrancy that would compel me to complete even a paragraph at a time without groaning from the effort.
Even the few photographs in this book are hard to look at, thanks to the low resolution, poor printing and low quality paper. I'm a big-time NYC nostalgia fan, but this book is useless.
I should have known.......2003-10-21
Considering 42nd Street runs East/West and not Uptown/Downtown, I should have known from Mr. Eliot's title that I would be in for a book that was not particular about details. And I would've been right. Like the street it depicts, DOWN 42nd is cluttered, splashy, and filled with materials that aren't the genuine article. I won't rehash the historical and typographical errors that other reviewers have pointed out. The book has its share of flawed research, and let's leave it at that.
On the plus side, the discussions centering on the constant political haggling about 42nd St. real estate was actually amusing (which I believe and hope was deliberate). And it was good to see attention paid to the East Side of the street; too many books--good and bad--have been written about Times Square and west. Pick this book up, if you see it marked down. And, please, don't use it as a reference for writing a dissertation!
Rocco Dormarunno, author of The Five Points Concluded, A Novel
Fascinating Topic, Very Mediocre Book........2003-09-17
Although the topic automatically makes the book interesting for those interested in NYC and general American urban history, reading this underachieving work made it easy to see why I found it in the bargain bin (on 42nd Street, no less).
Many factual mistakes and half-truths are apparent to the casual reader, and I shudder to think what an "expert" on the subject would think. Also, the proofreading is bad, with many typos, and the photographs are generally of such poor quality that they are almost useless. The writing is generally uneven as well.
All of this gives the impression that this book was a rushed and lightly-treated project. I will search for a better one on the same topic.
From cattle trail to pedestrian mall.......2002-08-24
My native skepticism makes me distrust about one third of what I read in this highly engaging page-turner. And I suspect a careful historian or a reader who cared enough to do a little investigative research could catch author Marc Eliot on a number of factual and interpretive errors. Even so, DOWN 42ND STREET was a fun read. One of Eliot's most delicious vices is his ability to draw (nearly libelous) caricatures of many of the key players in New York's history, most notably its mayors. (For instance, this about Ed Koch's repsonse to the porn, drug, and prostitution situation on 42nd Street: "No problem, Koch insisted. Just leave everything to him. From here on in, he told one and all, it was going to be nothing but smooth sailing. After which, the smiling, gesticulating mayor, the ever-loquacious captain of the good ship "New York," led himself and the city straight into the worst political storm of his career.") The overweening journalistic style exhibits itself in Eliot's tendency to frequently end chapters with semi-mysterious cliff-hangers designed to keep us reading. It works, but I read on with a much eroded sense of trust.
If you're willing to look past all that, and if you appreciate seeing large complex chunks of history telescoped into compact coctail-party-sized anecdotes, you'll enjoy this brief history of a truly fascinating piece of New York real estate. And one thing Eliot makes clear is that it IS all about real estate (i.e., money). Enormous and bizarre egos clash in scramble for profits. The history of 42nd Street is the history of corruption and neglect on the part of public officials; fear, fascination, and indifference on the part of citizens and tourists; and greed held in check by caution on the part of the private sector. In other words, there has been enough ambivalence about 42nd Street to keep Midtown in limbo (if not hell) for almost five decades. Eliot depicts this dilemma well. He also discusses what has been missing from most newspapers' accounts of the "resurrection" of 42nd Street: the fact that it was Organized Crime under the leadership of the Teflon Don, John Gotti, that almost single-handedly engineered the descent of one of the world's most amazing entertainment capitals into a truly dangerous place to be, day or night.
Eliot's final assessment reflects many New Yorkers' cynicism about the Disney-ification of Times Square. With the influx of Mall-of-America type stores and a Toys-R-Us Ferris Wheel, can Ed Koch's pedestrian mall be far behind? Maybe so. But one thing is sure, 42nd Street is one street that never stands still.
Caveat Emptor: Enjoyable But Flawed.......2002-03-31
"Down 42nd Street" is a path I walk five days a week. It has been enjoyable to watch the stunning metamorphosis of this grand boulevard over the past decade or so. It was, therefore, with eager anticipation that I picked up this new history of 42nd Street.
On one level, it was an enjoyable read, offering illuminating anecdotes such as the encampment of George Washington's troops on the grounds of what is now the New York Public Library during the pivotal Battle of New York. In the 19th Century, the site would house the Croton Reservoir colossus. On the adjacent property, the Crystal Palace pavallion -- featuring the tallest structure in New York at the time -- became the City's premier social gathering place until it burned down while firefighters futilely tried to draw ground-level water from the high-walled reservoir. The demise of the Crystal Palace would clear the way for the development of Bryant Park on this site in the period after the Civil War.
The book is loaded with fascinating tidbits like these for people who enjoy history.
A good portion of the book is devoted to the spreading hegemony of illicit drugs, pornography and crime on West 42nd Street in the period after World War II, and the reclamation of the street in the 1990s. This is where "Down 42nd Street" falls down. The author -- an entertainment writer -- presents several misstatements that seriously tarnish his narrative. At one point, he asserts that Olympia & York owned Rockefeller Center -- hugh?? -- and contends that in 1981, "Governor" Cuomo dropped his opposition to the selection of a lead developer after Mayor Koch hinted at challenging the "Governor" in 1982. (Cuomo did not become Governor until 1983 following a primary challenge from Koch in the fall of 1982! Don't they employ factcheckers at Warner Books?)
The storyline really becomes muddled when describing the sequence of events in Times Square in 1990s, and it is clear that the author is out of his element here. He creates the appearance that the Conde Nast Building was the last of the four "elephant legs" in the 42nd Street Redevelopment Plan to be built. It was the first. He has Morgan Stanley purchasing its headquarters on Broadway and 49th Street AFTER the groundbreaking on the "elephant legs" when, in fact, the purchase pre-dated the Conde Nast groundbreaking by at least two years. He has Bertelsmann -- a true Times Square pioneer -- moving into its Broadway headquarters in 1999, about five years late. The list could go on.
These factual flaws diminish what started out as an enjoyable history. Caveat Emptor.
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42nd Street
James Seymour , and
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I must of missed the sign, wheres the real 42nd street!.......2001-05-02
This book is good for all ages. Moslty fo those who are fans of that genre.
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Martin et al Stone
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John Cage's Theatre Pieces (Contemporary Music Studies)
Willi Fetterman
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The experimental composer John Cage (1912-1992) is best known for his works in percussion, prepared piano, and electronic music, but he is also acknowledged to be one of the most significant figures in 20th century theatre. In Cage's work in theatre composition there is a blurring of the distinctions between music, dance, literature, art and everyday life. Here, William Fetterman examines the majority of those compositions by Cage which are audial as well as visual in content, beginning with his first work in this genre in 1952, and continuing through 1992.
Much of the information in this study comes from previously undocumented material discovered among the unpublished scores and notes of Cage and his frequent collaborator David Tudor, as well as author's interviews with Cage and with individuals closely associated with his work, including David Tudor, Merce Cunningham, Bonnie Bird, Mary Caroline Richards, and Ellsworth Snyder.
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This is good softwares fot pilots........2000-09-05
I am French, but I can do the reading in the English good. I like these simulator books good. When I am home, in Provence, where I am most of the days, or in the palazzo in Capri, I lilke to use my computer for the simulating of the flying. It is true that this book is calling itself for any planes, but the Cessna is flying here mostly. It is still good for simulating the flights, though. And maybe you would be wanting to fly a Cessna good someday. I would be happy to see a simulator game for Learjet and Mooney, because that is mostly the planes that I fly. Also, my sister should be learning, and the Cessna is good. My sister, does not know that I think she sshould be flying, but when you have a business for flying, one pilot is not always so good. She could soon be calling herself a pilot, too..................... ....................Presented by Summer!
O.K. for propeller planes , improvable on the comercial jets.......2000-07-14
Think of this as a very good book, that really covers all the issues about not only Ms Flight Simulator, but also its application on real world aviation. It is not focused on teaching how to deal with all the commands and menus of flight simulator: it assumes that you know all of this (it has an excellent keyboard cover tough), and focus on teaching you how is real-world flight, and how to bring it inside the game, making you a trully virtual pilot.
However, this book is very focused on the Cessna 182 (It makes me believe I can pilot a real one now :)), and fails somehow on the comercial jets, specially in terms of the landing process. In terms of teaching IFR flying, again it is excellent for propeller planes, but it disapointed me on the comercial planes.
But still it is a very good book, and I would surelly buy it again.
This guide comes with a huge bonus !.......2000-02-23
While I really did appreciate the very valuable and well organized information offered by the book, I was very nicely surprised to see that the book came with a Keyboard Cover. This tool is pretty amazing in the sense that, besides being very attractive, it simply eliminates the task of remembering the huge number of key shortcuts ! Brilliant addition to the book which deserves 3 1/2 stars on its own.....but together, this combination deserves 5 stars.
I just don't understand why Amazon doesn't mention the inclusion of the Keyboard Cover ? It would have made my decision process much easier.
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Flying to Tasmania & Back.......2000-02-16
This was indeed a great help in my flying capabilities with the Beechcraft King Air (Favourite) Has all the info on the intricate flying detail. Sure assisted my in flying from my home in Melbourne, Australia to my Mothers home in Hobart, Tasmania. Very handy to have...NB
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Useful, timely resources!.......2000-04-09
I use to think that a business writing book would be boring and outdated. However, this book did provide a good resources for the executives during their day to day job.
I would have no doubt to recommend this book to everyone.
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Outstanding Resource for a Sales Writing Tips.......2004-02-10
I was absolutely amazed at this collection of sales letters. For many different sales situations, strategy and focus are required. This book simplified the process greatly and put our firm in closer step with our customers' expectations. We are making big sales and creating an even bigger reputation for oursealves. This book is a must for any sales reference library.
SALES ARE SKYROCKETING.......1999-05-28
ON BEHALF OF MYSELF, SABRINA MCCOY AND COLLEAGUES, SANDY STEELE & PAMELA DE LA MATA, AT LOUIS PRINTING SERVICES, WE ARE SENDING OUR CONGRATULATIONS TO RHONDA HARRIS AND ANN MCINTYRE . THIS BOOK GAVE US NEW DIRECTION IN OUR SALES COMMUNICATION WITH OUR CLIENTS. THE GUIDELINES THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE BOOK ARE FABULOUS ESPECIALLY WHEN TRYING TO UNLOCK THE DOOR ON NEW CLIENTS. THIS BOOK ENLIGHTENS A SALESPERSON BY GIVING THEM HOPE & DETERMINATION TO SHOOT FOR THE STARS.
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The Complete Letterwriter's Almanac: A Handbook of Model Letters for Business, Social, and Personal Occasions
Dianna Booher
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
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Pastor's Complete Model Letter Book
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The Prentice Hall Complete Book of Model Letters, Memos and Forms for Secretaries
Mary A. De Vries
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