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When Books editor Gissen, who gets around as much as any good reporter, left John Marquand in Nassau to fly back to New York to write his story, the author asked to have lunch with him and Miss Mehrtens in Manhattan on the day TIME and the Marquand cover would appear on the newsstands. "Thinking about it on the way home," said Gissen, "it occurred to me that I would have to meet him with a copy of TIME in my hand and that that might turn out to be the bravest thing I've ever had to do."
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