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...jammed galleries tittered and yawned; all but half a dozen Senators creaked out to nap in the cloakrooms. At 7:30 p.m. they were summoned back to the floor by a Langer quorum call. They found the sagging North Dakotan chewing the mangled end of a cellophane-wrapped cigar...
This time the man in the barrel is Hero Bernard, who lives among bums and hobos in a cubicle of the "Willis Hotel" (rent: 35? a night). First he works in a cigar store where his fellow clerks nourish their starved egos by achieving the maximum of seductions at the minimum of expense. While they dream of the day when they can buy any woman they want, Bernard dreams of deathless love and literary fame. In his off hours he buries himself in the works of Dreiser, Ibsen, Keats and Sherwood Anderson, agonizingly hammers out his own youthful fiction...
John Lewis spat the shreds of his cigar halfway across the room...
...Inspiring. At noon he and Clint Anderson sat down with Production Marketing Administration agents and Farmers' Union bosses for a well-advertised starvation lunch: a cup of potato soup, one piece of bread (no butter), one cup of coffee (no cream or sugar). Butch lighted a cigar and looked slyly at the hungry diners from the northwest plains. Then waiters trooped in with salmon steak, potatoes, string beans, plenty of bread & butter...
...remember the time Hack Wilson was hit on the head by a fly ball while sassing the bleachers; the time three Dodgers tried to slide into the same base at the same time; the time Babe Herman's pants caught fire because he forgot to douse his cigar before putting it in his pocket...