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April 4, 1977

The New Yorker cover for April 4, 1977

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GOODY

Mark Singer

PROFILE of Goodman Ace. In 1933, Frank Hummert, who ran the New York office of Blackette-Sample-Hummert, hired Goodman Ace and his wife Jane, for a radio …

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