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. MINT CANYON, Cal, Aug. 7~His skill as an amateur magician helped Thomas W. Duncan, an obscure writer who has been living on a | meager Income in an auto trailer, to hit the literary jackpot of the year.’

| cided last year to give up writing. But he made one final stab.

| staged magic shows at“dude| i | ranches for $10 a half-hour. And lieved. Por Tom, stricken with rheu- | Tom drilled his wife in shorthand matic fever 20 years ago, must live |

in the local housing authority. | A Harvard graduate (26) he | Tom's novel, “Gus the Great,” will Worked as a reporter briefly on Des

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least $250,000. , In their remote home-on-wheels,| The Duncan's only sign of affiu- | 40 miles outside Los Angeles at the [ence to date is a shiny convertible. | | edge of the Mojave Desert, the Dun- | cans are apprehensive about the|Tom said, “I almost feel as if I had | fame that will inevitably descend |stolen it.” | { on them. _— | When Tom first conceived the character of Gus, a circus owner, 11 years ago, the Duncans vowed

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| replied that J. B. Lippincott Co. | | advance of $5000. (The Lippincott | match its best seller, “The Egg and Universal-International is paying |

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By FREDERICK WOLTMAN, Scripps-Howard Staff Writer

Convinced he was a fallure at 42, the modest, scholarly author de-

To keep from going broke, meanwhile, the Duncans—Tom and Actes’

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published in September, the Moines newspapers but mostly has

ly guarantee the Duncans at|magazines, His first three novels |s0ld less than 6000 copies altogether.

“When 1 look at it sometimes,” |

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DID’JA SEE IT? The first issue of the HOOSIER PHOTO BULLETIN is off the press ‘and in the hands of those who left their names and addresses for this very purpose, Immodestly, we thought it was pretty good. There were three pages of merchandise information and a column of camera club news, This is just the start, next menth's will be |

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