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Most of the rest of Cannery Row is given over to an account of Mack's party for Doc. But little anecdotes of Monterey life slip in between the chapters: the story of William, the bouncer at the brothel, who was high-hatted by Mack's gang (said Mack, "I hate a pimp") and disconsolately stuck an ice pick in his heart; the story of Mr. & Mrs. Malloy, who in 1935 moved into an abandoned boiler in a vacant lot on Cannery Row, and quarreled because Mrs. Malloy wanted curtains for the windows that weren't there...
...premature. To finance it the boys collected 500 frogs (for which Doc would pay 5? apiece), then traded the frogs to Lee Chong for liquor which they drank while waiting for Doc to show up. When he finally arrived, his house was a shambles. But no Steinbeck story of Monterey could end on so grim a note. All Cannery Row cooperated to make up for the destruction by giving the music-loving old scientist a party they could enjoy, and the book ends with the sound of revelry by night, a saturnalia of middle-aged harlots, party-crashing fishermen, aging...
Soldiers will be sent first to "separation centers." Five have already been set up (Fort Dix, N.J., Fort McPherson, Ga., Fort Sheridan, Ill., Fort Sam Houston, Tex., Presidio of Monterey, Calif.) There G.I. Joe will get a physical examination, and medical treatment if he needs it. Finally discharged, he will get the money owed him plus travel pay, with the advice to lose no time in buying his ticket...
...sold his spacious, white-walled "Tao House"-across the bay from San Francisco. "I have to go East on business, but this has nothing to do with the theater," said the playwright, who during his seven year seclusion at "Tao House" (with his third wife, exactress Carlotta Monterey) has been struggling against a recurring ailment to complete his cycle of seven plays: A Tale of Possessors Self-Dispossessed. No comment by O'Neill was reported on the news that a child was expected in August by his 18-year-old daughter Oona, dark-eyed fourth wife of recently indicted...
...Angeles, a café proprietor finally had his front window permanently lettered in gold leaf: "Monterey Café-Waitress Wanted...