Meet Corliss Archer Author:F. Hugh Herbert Not so very long ago, F. Hugh Herbert was driving down Hollywood Boulevard with his sixteen-year-old daughter when he stopped to give a lift to a personable young infantry-man. His daughter's spontaneous 'charm act" not only devastated the soldier, it sent Herbert himself to his typewriter to record the incident for Good Housekeeping Magazine a... more »nd posterity. He called his heroine Corliss Archer. He little knew it at the time, but he was creating a new industry.
Corliss Archer stories became a regular and increasingly popular feature of Good Housekeeping. Then they became a redio show. Then Herbert fashioned them into a play called Kiss and Tell, which has four companies playing to capacity as this is written. Now, finally, Mr. Herber has collected the best of them into a book which will carry the rame of the irresistible Corliss and her long-suffering admirer, Dexter, even further afield. If you haven't met Corliss yet yourself, for heavn's sake don't waste another second reading jacket blurbs!« less