{"id":1572,"date":"2014-07-22T20:08:43","date_gmt":"2014-07-23T00:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.handlernyc.com\/interestingfoundobjects\/?p=1572"},"modified":"2014-07-23T09:38:01","modified_gmt":"2014-07-23T13:38:01","slug":"how-to-get-a-job-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.handlernyc.com\/interestingfoundobjects\/2014\/07\/how-to-get-a-job-2\/","title":{"rendered":"HOW TO GET A JOB"},"content":{"rendered":"

From New York City<\/strong><\/p>\n

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I had just moved back from Montana to Manhattan, and was sorting through the mountains of boxes when I found this correspondence from my mother’s archives.<\/p>\n

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Born in New York City in 1912, she had been a stenographer – which she loathed – but said that she always made sure that she at least worked in interesting places and for interesting people.<\/p>\n

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During the depression she was secretary to Ben Hecht – the legendary newspaperman, playwright and Hollywood screenwriter who’s work included : Scarface, The Front Page, Nothing Sacred, His Girl Friday, Notorious, and Wuthering Heights – but I never knew how she got the job.<\/p>\n

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Here’s how.<\/p>\n

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In 1937 Hecht was quoted in an interview stating that when poor people get money they no longer value it,\u00a0 so she wrote him a letter.<\/p>\n\"\"\n

She got the job.<\/p>\n

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New York Post columnist Leonard Lyons commented in his column The Lyons Den that a lady had written a letter to Hecht denouncing him, and he promptly hired her as his secretary.<\/p>\n

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My mother sent Lyons a letter too.<\/p>\n

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Which sadly, I did not find.<\/p>\n

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But I did find this:<\/p>\n\"\"\n

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And this.<\/p>\n\"\"\n

Way to go Mom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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