Ghost Writer

Ghost-Writer

As editor, manager and ghostwriter of Famous Features Syndicate, 39-year-old Leslie Fulenwider had dished up and sold the "own" stories of such headliners as Mrs. Frances Heenan ("Peaches") Browning, Queen Marie of Rumania, Peggy Hopkins Joyce, Nila Cram Cook (from Iowa to Gandhi and back), the late Mrs. Elsa Einstein ("Joys & Sorrows of Being a Famous Man's Wife"). Last week Leslie Fulenwider decided it was time he did something on his own. He arranged to take a parachute jump, his first, and describe his sensations in a syndicated article he would ghostwrite for himself.

His friend Joe Crane, who runs a parachute school at Roosevelt Field, L. I. went up with him in a plane piloted by Russell T. Thaw, son of Harry K. Thaw and Evelyn Nesbit. In the cockpit Crane held a long rope tied to the ripcord on Fulen-wider's parachute, so if the writer failed to yank the 'chute open after he jumped, Crane could do it for him. At 2,000 feet. Fulenwider climbed out on the plane's wing, got his feet tangled in Crane's rope, jumped before anybody could yell at him. The 'chute did not open. The ghostwriter's story was finished, but Leslie Fulenwider did not write it.

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