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Lucius Beebe, whose sartorial sharpness is the despair of other Manhattan fancy-dressers, got caught with his spats down in Colorado. Returning from a dusty tour of the Pike's Peak country, he started confidently toward a table in Colorado Springs' swank Broadmoor Hotel, was briskly stopped by the headwaiter. The management's firm attitude: Columnist Beebe, in riding clothes, was not suitably dressed for hotel dining...
...room in Mellon from the second floor up is charged to the hilt with talk since Fortune brought its western issue out. Larry "christmas Spirit" Jaffa has called a "cal Homecoming" and everybody west of Philadelphia is going. Dick Shorrock is talking in public now on the advantages of Pike's Peak over the New Hampshire Hills for real skiling. He has a pair of skis straight from Shorrock's in Sacramento as well as a new shipment of oranges which Bob Stewart has been appointed special curator...
Trucks were already moving supplies from the Ledo railhead over "Pick's Pike" to Myitkyina. The first convoy got through to Tengyueh in China via "Chiang's Lane," the narrow alternate roadway 50,000 coolies had hacked over 8,000-ft. mountains. When last-ditch Jap suicide squads are cleaned up, other convoys, using the old Burma Road from Wanting north, would help feed China's munitions-starved armies...
...hero of the story is personable young Peter Marshall, an English bomber pilot who likes to fish. A 33-inch pike which he catches one afternoon helps him strike up an acquaintance with pretty Gervase Robertson, a WAAF assigned to his station. He takes her through the countryside, falls happily in love...
...Dago Mangano never discounted the element of risk involved in business ventures; he always made it plain that he had no consuming ambition for power. Mike de Pike Heitler, Benjamin (Zookie the Bookie) Zuckerman and many others of his associates died noisily as the years passed, but Dago Mangano - "always prominent but never a big shot"-prospered in peace...