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CONTENTS
One
Two
Three
Four
Five
Six
Seven
Eight
Nine
Photographs
Ten
Eleven
Twelve
Thirteen
Fourteen
Fifteen
Sixteen
Seventeen
Eighteen
Nineteen
THE WHOLE TRUTH
AND NOTHING BUT
The Whole Truth
and Nothing But
HEDDA HOPPER
and
JAMES BROUGH
DOUBLEDAY & COMPANY, INC.
GARDEN CITY, NEW YORK
COPYRIGHT © 1962, 1963 BY HEDDA HOPPER
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
DEDICATION
To my son, Bill, who never took
any sass from his mother
and never gave her any.
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I’m told that when you write a book with a title like this,you must let your readers know something about your life.Well, I was born into the home of David and Margaret Furry,one of nine children. Seven of us grew up. Three of us arestill here, including my sister Margaret and brother Edgar,who played a good game of football when he attended Lafayettequite a while back.
I first saw the light of day in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania,a beautiful suburb of Altoona, which used to live off thePennsylvania Railroad and its affiliates. Since railroads havefallen on lean and hungry years, I don’t know what’s feedingthe place today.
My mother, an angel on earth whom I worshiped, namedme Elda, from a story she was reading at the time. Yearslater, after I’d married DeWolf Hopper,