George Seldes - Footnotes

Footnotes

aa. ^ Asked how to say his name, he told the Literary Digest in 1936: "Nine persons out of ten mispronounce our name. If it had an n instead of an s as the final letter there would be no difficulty. The name is pronounced like Selden with the last letter an s": SEL-duhss.
ab. ^ According to Minton the Party wanted an American version of Claud Cockburn's muckraking London political weekly, The Week.

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