The Years Were Good

LOUIS BENSON SELTZER was born September 19, 1897, in a single-story cottage back of a fire station on Cleveland's near West Side—on the other side of the river and the other side of the tracks. The oldest of five children in a household always short of cash, he was hardly in knee britches before he was handling a paper route to help out the kitchen bank. His father was Charles Alden Seltzer, who was to write 49 books, many of which were later made into motion pictures. But when Louis Seltze...