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...bandmen, most of whom cannot read music, play strictly by ear. Bob explains: "People don't like to see no musician with his nose buried in a sheet of music when they're dancin'." The Playboys were picked for their "mixin' quality." Says Bob: "I cain't stand for no showoffs." What show-offin' there is, Bob does himself...
...TIME showed bias in referring to Methodism as a sect; ED. said he preferred sect to denomination because it was a four-letter word. Reader Goler advised us-correctly -that Airman Wilbur Wright died of typhoid, not pneumonia, as TIME had said. A brief dissertation on the subject of Cain's wife led to a longer one on Calvin Coolidge's mistaking (in a speech) a hit by Baseball's Walter Johnson for an error by Shortstop Jackson. ED. agreed that it would be silly to choose a Chief Executive for his knowledge of baseball...
...James M. Cain, concocter of literary 20-minute eggs (The Postman Always Rings Twice, Mildred Pierce), settled down in New Orleans to write another novel, described book critics as "ex-police reporters gone highbrow ... simply weird in their ignorance." He complained that "all critics confuse themselves with God," and concluded that "the confusion is unjustified...
...without ever admitting it, that out of his swollen income he gave away huge sums-to friends, charities, young men trying to get a start in life. But sometimes the very combination of Christian and Monster seemed intolerable. "Your brother has a heart of gold," said Novelist James M. Cain to Will Woollcott, "and how I hate the son-of-a-bitch...
Married. James M. Cain, 52, thrillmaster ( The Postman Always 'Rings Twice, Serenade, Double Indemnity); and Aileen Pringle, 43, veteran cinemactress; he for the third time, she for the second: in Santa Monica, Calif...