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  "tags": [
    "www.ebay.com",
    "Benard Glemser",
    "with a much classier cover",
    "Come Fly With Me",
    "Coffee Tea or Me",
    "West Roma",
    "Caruso Roxy",
    "Dave West",
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    "Roxanna",
    "Loose New Roman",
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  "textContent": "Contributed by Florian Hardwig\n\n\n _**Source:  www.ebay.com **License: All Rights Reserved. _\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBenard Glemser’s novel about prospective stewardess Carol Thompson was originally published by Random House as Girl on a Wing in 1960, with a much classier cover. It 1963, it was made into a movie entitled _Come Fly With Me_ and re-issued by Bantam as _The Fly Girls_. In 1969, Bantam brought out a new paperback edition with a sexist cover design that obviously jumped on the bandwagon of the top-selling Coffee Tea or Me from 1967.\n\nI’m adding it here because of the cover typeface which hasn’t come up a lot on Fonts In Use before: **West Roma** is wider than Caruso Roxy, but has an overall similar feel. Drawn by Dave West in the second half of the 1960s, Photo-Lettering grouped it together with Roxy, Roxanna, Loose New Roman and Fantasia in a section named “Curled Casual Latins”.\n\nGlemser and Bantam tried to squeeze even more out of the trend, and issued the sequel The Super-Jet Girls and a new edition of Here Come The Brides in 1971. Despite playing it safe with Caruso Roxy on the cover, these books weren’t as big a hit. What they did succeed in was further tainting Roxy as the stereotypical typeface for the lewd aspects of the Swinging Sixties.\n\n\n\n\n_**Source:  www.kupindo.com **Kupindo. License: All Rights Reserved. _\n\nThis post was originally published at Fonts In Use\n\n* * *",
  "title": "The Fly Girls by Bernard Glemser, Bantam 1969"
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