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...birth to trust no one, it would eventually be a universal state of mind." He followed a cynic's success formula: "Get the money." His cold blue eyes discouraged friendship. From his altitude in journalism he could reach a hand down to promising young comers -Bob Considine, Paul Gallico -only to turn on them if they seemed to threaten his position. One he always cut was Ring Lardner, whom Runyon suspected -rightly -was a writer of far greater in sight, substance and style...
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...Love, Let Me Not Hunger, Gallico...
SCRUFFY, by Paul Gallico (299 pp.; Doubleday; $4.50). Scruffy was a Barbary ape and, according to Writer Paul Gallico, the male animal that did most to turn the tide of World War II. Gallico invented him and his doings from a single shred of fact: during the war Prime Minister Winston Churchill issued orders that the ape population of Gibraltar be preserved, in deference to the legend that when the last ape leaves the rock, the British will, too. The monkey tricks that roll out of Gallico's typewriter are frantic but predictable. The crisis, brought on by fifth...