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...worldly little circle of summer friends taking their cues and comforts from well-heeled Sam and Sara Dunn, Sam's cousin Peter Cowley is a bit of a boob, but useful. Peter's job is to tame and tutor the circle's mischievous parcel of small fry in an impromptu summer school; his joy is to roam off into the woods alone munching an apple and chewing on the word of God. On one such solitary jaunt, he sees a vision, not God but a proof "that there is God, and that we matter...
...American husband can expect to be looked on as nothing more than a branch of the Chase National Bank . . . Other than this, he is considered totally useless-a big boob, to be pushed around unmercifully . . . And yet . . . the men go right ahead and put their head in a noose...
...March 4, 1887. He subtitled his little sheet "Monarch of the Dailies," and set out, as one editor put it, "to arouse the 'gee whiz!' emotion." The Examiner's boss rushed special trains to cover out-of-town fires, ran up enormous cable tolls. He wrote boob-catching headlines like A SUNDAY SUICIDE OF A LOVESICK LOAFER. On the premise that "there is no substitute for circulation," he spent his father's money like a drunken prospector-then made it back, as circulation multiplied...
...format, Haldeman-Julius tried the same boob-catcher with another De Maupassant classic, Room No. 11, the story of a two-timing wife. His new title: What Happened in Room...
...last columns for Hearst's King Features Syndicate, Runyon wrote a review of his own work. Said Runyon of Runyon: "By saying something with a half-boob air ... he gets ideas out of his system on the wrongs of this world which indicate that he must have been a great rebel at heart but lacking moral courage . . . He is a hired Hessian of the type writer ... I tell you Runyon has subtlety but it is the considered opinion of this reviewer that it is a great pity the guy did not remain a rebel out & out, even...