A whole team of superstar sagebrush school writers are assembled and plan pieces, including a serial novel like Dickens, with several contributors but edited by Sam. He’s thrilled. MTIVC 173 When the Occidental is scrapped Sam is pissed off and horribly sad.
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Adah opening night
She upsets everybody by doing The French Spy instead Switches to Mazeppa by the next week, 3/7/64. She makes $36k on the trip. In today’s money it would be $500k
Sam sums up street violence wonderfully
it’s depressing though. and it gets sam uncomfortable – the thought that the recession will lead to civic collapse. MTIVC 155 reported with a sang-froid that verged on boredom