Merla Zellerbach Zellerbach Day. Cosmopolitan, Travel & Leisure, Reader's Digest, Prevention, Women's World, This Week, Saturday Evening Post, and others; 1989-99; Cover stories: SF Focus, Gentry, Nob Hill Gazette, Where Magazine; 1985-91; Featured articles (8) in Town & Country. Published Interviews included: Shirley Temple Black, Yves St. Laurent, Andy Warhol, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Bob Hope, Hugh Hefner, Bennett Cerf, Joe Montana and Helen Gurley Brown. 9, 10 2007 – 2014; Editor Emerita and staff writer for Nob Hill Gazette 1995 - 2007; Editor, Nob Hill Gazette 1975-93; Enrichment Lecturer and writing instructor on cruise ships 1965-70; Panelist on ABC-TV's OH MY WORD,
Gurley Novelty Gurley Novelty Gurley Novelty was a manufacturer primarily known for making holiday candles shaped like small figures. The company was owned, and its products designed by candle maker Franklin Gurley. In recent years Gurley candles have become popular collectible items. The company started out in Buffalo, New York in the 1939 as part of candlemaker Franklin Gurley's W&F Manufacturing Co. Inc. At first the Gurley line was commissioned by the Socony-Vacuum Oil Company (now ExxonMobil) as a way to reuse excess paraffin produced as a by-product of the oil refinery process. Gurley's first products were marketed under the name Tavern.