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When Catherine is invited to spend a few weeks with a Spanish family, she sees a chance to repair all kinds of relations. Vitamin-packed but starved for iniquity -as far as Air Force gallants go, the Cain in Spain is mainly on the wane-Catherine sets the Spaniards to smoldering. Before long she is exchanging sweet nadas with the very Iberian who has been spreading all the calumnies-a handsome, aristocratic, intelligent, artistic, musically talented blackguard of a bullfighter. He hates the U.S. because it is burying his country's fine old traditions under a mulch of Coca...
Last week the story of the pardon played out in the kind of twist with which Story Spinner O. Henry liked to end his own tales. Jack McKenzie, account executive for the Cain Organization, a Dallas public relations outfit, let it be known that he had whipped up the whole furor as a plug for a client's television show. The Gift of the Magi, a musical version of the sentimental, enduring O. Henry Christmas story. Said successful Pressagent McKenzie: "Greatest thing I ever...
Newsmagazine sales rose by 40%, and vendors found they were selling out income tax guides, the Hobo News, and paperbound books from James M. Cain to Stendhal. Subscribers to the Wall Street Journal angrily reported that their copies were being stolen from in front of their office doors. No New Yorkers were more dismayed by the strike than the numbers-game players: the payoff number is currently derived from the total mutuel take at Maryland's Pimlico race course, a figure that conveniently is carried by the daily press...
...Obfuscator de Luxe." Not all of his readers join in the paean of praise. Novelist James M. Cain, an associate on the World, said of him: "He may be thinking in terms quite divorced from what the American people are worrying about, which occasionally gives his work an extremely farfetched quality." The late Heywood Broun, a Harvard classmate and a World staffer, wrote wryly that Lippmann is "quite apt to score a field goal for Harvard and a touchdown for Yale in one and the same play." Liberal Lawyer Amos Pinchot gave him the title "Obfuscator de Luxe...
...finally, Falstaff left. He had dug deep-seeking dry-rot in his soul's garden and found nothing, so he changed scenes, joined the two percent, went abroad. And there he is today, still delightfully happy, ever hunting misfortune, bearing always the curse of the modern Cain--a horrible isolation in his happiness...