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Esquire’s Five-minute Shelf
Concerning Maugham's and Hecht's latest, with a few gay Hechtian anecdotes of Maxwell Bodenheim
August
1
1944
BENNETT CERF
Esquire’s Five-minute Shelf
BENNETT CERF
August
1
1944
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Esquire’s Five-minute Shelf
Concerning Maugham's and Hecht's latest, with a few gay Hechtian anecdotes of Maxwell Bodenheim
August
1
1944
BENNETT CERF
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