In the meantixo6» I think It was beeaiise I had 

 written a story— In factf I had written two stories* 

 One of them was in response to a newspaper eontestf 

 X think the Baltimore Sun * I didnH win a prize, 

 tat they bou^t ray story and published it* The 

 other I sold to Vogue. 



^^^^* ZSSHS.* ^^^ goodness sake. 



Cogginsi Vogue was different in its format at that tiiae— a 

 oormnonplace woaen^s style magazine* But it 

 published 8 few stories* It didn't hare anything 

 like the glamour it has today* Relatively, 

 perhaps it did, because those were not glamourotis 

 days* 



My writing gave our manager the idea that I 

 might be useful in reading manuseripts* And I 

 read manuscripts* 



dilbi Do you recall now any of the manuscxlpts you read 

 during that period that later became well known? 



Cogginss We had, for instance, some of Horatio Alger's books, 

 but we were going to publish them whether I read 

 them or not* (laughter) Some of them had been 

 run through Golden Days * which was a boys* 

 magasine, and we were glad to get the book rights 

 and publish them under any conditions* 



