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Writer Louis Adamic (The Native's Return, Dinner at the White House), had known hard times in his 38 years in the U.S. He had been a Yugoslav immigrant boy at 14, a newspaper loader, a soldier, a textile worker, a longshoreman. When he moved in 1936 to a century-old farmhouse and 40 acres of land in New Jersey's stony, wooded Hunterdon County hills, he took to the placid rural life with something akin to jubilance. "Louis," nearby residents took to saying, "is a good neighbor-none better...
...remedy the mid-weeks hiatus, the sagacious free-loader spends much of his time on warm Spring afternoons just walking through House court-yards and the Yard. The sounds of a good party--tinkling glasses, sniggering girls, rearing male laughter--will float down to the moocher's ear and lead him to his filling-station. Entry is simple; a more request to use the telephone will suffice...
...free-loader never gives a party himself, but when he goes to one he is full of advice about how to arrange a completely successful affair...
...ingrediants of a great party--plenty of good liquor, attractive girls, music loud but not blaring in the background, a generous amount of extroverts--served to make the host slightly uneasy about the quality of his own affair. Consequently, even if he does not know the free-loader (which should be the case), he will put on a special effort to make him at home, i.e. ply him with liquor...
Jack Grant was watching closely from the gate when a cargo loader banged his yellow bag against the airplane hatch. The baggage smasher dropped it in horror as it began to spout flames. White-coveralled mechanics and loaders converged with foaming CO2 bottles, put the fire out before the gasoline could catch. By that time, Grant had thrust the insurance receipts into Betty's hands, blurted something that sounded like "I'm going to be arrested! I'm going to jail for sure," and fled...