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Very good in Good jacket. 22 cm. 255, [1] pages. Lengthy inscription from the author on half-title page "July 15th 1971 To Bert Rosecan Best Wishes to you. May your life be Happy and Free. May your Treasure's be many. Best Love Sally Stanford. This may be the Bert Rosecan who was the founder and CEO of SMS, a major information technology company. Sally Stanford (May 5, 1903-February 1, 1982) was a madam, restaurateur, council member and the mayor of Sausalito, California. Born Mabel Janice Busby, in Oregon in 1903, Stanford moved to San Francisco in 1924. From 1940 to 1949, she was madam of a bordello at 1144 Pine Street on Nob Hill in a house designed by architect Stanford White. She adopted the name Stanford as one of many pseudonyms. According to her autobiography Lady of the House, she saw a newspaper headline about Stanford University's winning a football game and adopted the surname. Stanford ran one of San Francisco's more notorious brothels. San Francisco Chronicle columnist Herb Caen wrote "the United Nations was founded at Sally Stanford's whorehouse" because of the number of delegates to the organization's 1945 San Francisco founding conference who were Stanford's customers; many actual, if informal, negotiating sessions took place in the brothel's living room. Derived from Kirkus review: Another house that was not a home with a lovely Pollyanalysis of the problems such presents. Madam Stanford is honest, and not at all regretful: "Is there really anything better, in the words of the poet, than 'living in a house by the side of the road and being a friend to man? '" A product of a more-or-less migrant family, Miss Stanford spent her early years as "daddy's little worker" assuming a wild assortment of jobs, which was fortunate since no one else in the family felt disposed to work. Fed up, Sally skipped out and into two early marriages and an undeserved stretch in the pen. Prohibition brought a career in boot-leggings more marriages and more attention from the law. Falsely accused anyway, of running a house of ill repute, practical Sally decides that it actually would would be more profitable than her bathtub still. It was. In those days, under the benevolent eye of San Francisco's Mayor, Jimmy Rolph, the Tenderloin District had its heyday. Rolph was even prone to fatherly advice-"Keep them clean and pretty Sally." The "Busy little dears" kept the clients rolling in and under Sally's expert guidance, her houses received an excellent reputation. Details (few-scatological) and anecdotes flourish into fun reading. Now a respectable restaurateur, Miss Stanford was busy trying to change her title to "Madam Councilman."