About the Author
Thomas Whiteside was born in England in 1918 at Berwick-upon-Tweed, on the Scottish border. After working as a newspaperman in Canada, he came to this country in 1940. He is a United States citizen. After wartime service with the Office of War Information, he worked as a reporter for The New Republic, and for some years he has been a writer for The New Yorker. Mr. Whiteside is married to a French-born wife and has three children. They live in Greenwich Village. He is the author of The Relaxed Sell, published in 1954.
Transcriber's Notes.
1. Silently corrected simple spelling, grammar, and typographical errors.
2. A number of the illustrations in the original are double page spreads. In this digital edition they have been reduced to a single page width.