Copyright © 1996 by Peter Duchin

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.

Grateful acknowledgment is made to The Anita Loos Trust for permission to reprint an excerpt from Cast of Thousands by Anita Loos (Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1977).

Copyright © 1977 by Anita Loos. Reprinted by permission of Ray Pierre Corsini, agent for The Anita Loos Trust.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Duchin, Peter.

Ghost of a chance : a memoir / Peter Duchin with Charles Michener.

p.     cm.

Includes index.

ISBN 0-375-75131-9 (alk. paper)

1. Duchin, Peter. 2. Musicians—United States—Biography.

I. Michener, Charles.    II. Title.

ML422.D8A3    1996    784.4′8′092-dc20

[B]        95-46748

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