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Philadelphia: Lippincott, [1938]. First edition, second printing, of this memoir by journalist, author, and pioneering radio reporter Irene Corbally Kuhn (1898 – 1995). Kuhn tells the story of her international reporting career, from Paris and London to Shanghai and Manila. Binding is bright and attractive. In the original color-printed dust jacket, a bit chipped (very good). Some toning to endpapers and margins. A very good or better copy,rare in the original dust jacket. Jacket has a few chips and teqrs, but is very bright. Publisher’s green cloth titled in gilt. Octavo. 432 pp. Item #17377
Kuhn was the first reporter to broadcast from a United States Navy vessel, probably the first woman radio announcer, and the first western reporter to broadcast from liberated Shanghai. Kuhn wrote for the Chicago Tribune, New York Daily News, Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Shanghai’s Evening Star, and was the first woman to write for the Stars and Stripes. She also wrote scripts and columns for production companies including Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Paramount. In the 1920s, Kuhn reported on Charles Lindbergh, the Hall-Mills and Snyder-Gray murder cases, the Frances Heenan and Edward West Browning scandal, and the murder trial of reporter Leonard Cline. During the 1940s, Kuhn became much more conservative, and served as the associate director of publicity for the Republican National Committee during Wendell Wilkie and Thomas E. Dewey’s presidential bids in 1940 and 1944, respectively. Kuhn also contributed to many magazines, including Reader’s Digest, Town and Country, Cosmopolitan, and Good Housekeeping.
Fresh, unhackneyed, breathless, racy — the lusty, gusty chronicle of a young newspaperwoman not yet 40 whose dish is life,” (from the dust jacket).
Price: $250.00