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As it came, the car slipped out ahead and Gas added grimly, “They’re after me for the installment due on the car, too — I suppose they’ll be taking that away next.”
“Oh, Gas!” she protested. “They wouldn’t. Why — why, you practically sold two cars for them!”
This was true. Next to her, Gas loved his car more than anything on earth. He was forever puttering around it; always welcomed a chance to demonstrate it to his friends. Hence the two sales she spoke of.
ex Royal Brown, “Love — With a Dash of Whisky,” pictures by Raymond Sisley in Liberty : 6:2 (January 19, 1929) : 30-36 (33)
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Royal Brown (-1953)
obituary in The New York Times (November 3, 1953) : link (paywall)
PLYMOUTH, N. H., Nov. 2 — Royal Brown, who wrote fiction stories for Cosmopolitan magazine for twenty-five years until his retirement in 1940, died early today at his home. His age was 67.
Approaching deafness after having become city editor of The Boston Journal at the age of 25, Mr. Brown resigned this post five years later on complete loss of his hearing. His account of how he had learned to become adjusted to his handicap appeared in Hearst’s International in 1924 under the title, “I’m Deaf, but I Don’t Look It.”
On the basis of his love stories, he was asked to write articles on how men and women could invite romance. His columns of advice appeared in Hearst newspapers. He also was the author of two novels. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Persis Hannah Brown, who writes under the name of Ruth Cameron [putterings 035], and a sister, Mrs. Marion Brown Creden of Scarsdale, N. Y.
other
- Royal Brown, “I’m Deaf But I Don’t Look It,” By Royal Brown, “Who tells those who Fear the approach of deafness the Philosophy he has evolved and the Comfort and Happiness he has Gained.”
Hearst’s International (December 1924) : 76-77, 133-134
U Michigan copy/scan (via hathitrust) : link - Royal Brown. Escape (E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., New York, 1938)
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