Autograph note signed Edward W. Bok" in response to Seymour Halpern's inquiry regarding the key to success in life.
Philadelphia: 1928.
Price: $100.00
About the item
1 p. on personal note card. 6 x 4 inches. Very good.
Item #310101
A one-line response from Dutch-born magazine editor and author, Edward William Bok (1863-1930). Reading: "Never begin anything that you cannot finish - "
Bok is best known as the long-serving editor of the Ladies' Home Journal, which during his editorship became the first magazine to garner one million subscribers. While at the magazine, he is credited with coining the term "living room" in an effort to encourage families to make more use of their parlors, which had been traditionally reserved for formal occassions and funerals. In 1921, Bok's autobiography, The Americanization of Edward Bok: The Autobiography of a Dutch Boy Fifty Years Later, won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.
As a high school student, Seymour Halpern (1913-1997), wrote letters to many notables of the day including politicians, military officers, entertainers, diplomats, artists, activists, writers, and businessmen, inquiring about their ideas to the keys to success in life. Halpern would later go on to serve as Republican from New York to the 86th, 87th, 88th, 89th, 90th, 91st and 92nd United States Congresses, holding office from January 3, 1959, to January 3, 1973.
