[PW] Looking for item in circa 1952 issue of AMERICAN GIRL magazine

[Dennis Lien]

At 06:10 PM 2/7/2008, you wrote:
>Was she an adult when the poem was published? As I recall from the
>1960s, the magazine had a couple of pages each month devoted to
>readers' poetry and drawings. The section may have been called "By
>You" (unless I'm confusing it with another girly magazine from that
>era). If such a section existed in 1952, and if the patron's wife was
>under 18 at the time, that could be where the poem appeared.
>
>smc


I'm told she was about 15 when the poem was published, so it may
indeed have been in the section you describe.  /  Dennis Lien



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> [mailto:project-wombat-bounces at lists.project-wombat.org] On Behalf Of 
> Dennis Lien
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> > Subject: [PW] Looking for item in circa 1952 issue of AMERICAN GIRL 
> magazine
> >
> >
> > A retired librarian here is trying to find a copy of a poem published
> > by his late wife in AMERICAN GIRL (the Girl Scouts of America magazine
> > of that name) around 1952.  The byline would have been "Susan Hunter" --
> > the title of the poem is unknown.


Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // d-lien at umn.edu