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...both a sinister intuitive sense and a strong constitution. Breakfast is a cup of coffee (with cream for added nourishment) and a ten-cent side order of buttered toast. (Harold watches with a surly viligance; there's always the chance that the grim, spindly individual who passes for an all-night cafeteria cook might slight students on butter.) Harold is careful not to tear apart and devour the bread; his meal is precise and aristocratic, punctuated with frequent glasses of free water...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: DOWN and OUT in Cambridge | 9/18/1958 | See Source »

...aging onetime track star enlivens the soggy butt ends of party nights by running a hurdle race over the furniture. One night he falls and breaks his leg. Shortly after that, his wife accidentally shoots him, but not before the youth cult has robbed him of the will to live. In Just Tell Me Who It Was, a happy May-December match promises never to be the same again after the young wife's blue lace girdle turns up among the lost-and-found items of an all-night country club bacchanal. The funniest and possibly the best story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Crack in the Picture Window | 9/8/1958 | See Source »

...give me no home. No home but park benches and gutters and all-night motion picture houses full of sailors. No home but pinball machines and erotica shelves and occasional wine cellars, and a night in jail...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: The Cambridge Scene | 7/24/1958 | See Source »

While her erstwhile friend, General Rafael Trujillo Jr., nonflying chief of the Dominican Republic's air force and army, whooped it up in Los Angeles Harbor with an all-night party or two aboard his one-gunned warship Angelita, fluff-tressed Cinemacaroon Kim Novak gazed dazzle-eyed at a solid, if less spectacular catch: Cancer Researcher Ernest L. Wynder, M.D. (TIME, May 5), who escorted Kim on a tour of Manhattan night life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 7, 1958 | 7/7/1958 | See Source »

...both a sinister intuitive sense and a strong constitution. Breakfast is a cup of coffee (with cream for added nourishment) and a ten-cent side order of buttered toast. (Harold watches with a surly vigilance; there's always the chance that the grim, spindly individual who passes for an all-night cafeteria cook might slight students on butter.) Harold is careful not to tear apart and devour the bread; his meal is precise and aristocratic, punctuated with frequent glasses of free water...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: Down 'n' Out in Cambridge: The Soybean Cult | 6/30/1958 | See Source »

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