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...Night Clerk Comer Rowan sat in for his wife at the switchboard of Atlanta's Winecoff Hotel. It was a dull hour. Out of the front door, cold moonlight flooded deserted Peachtree Street. In his tenth-floor suite, white-thatched, 70-year-old W. Frank Winecoff, who built the hotel in 1913,* slept soundly...
This book is a light fantastic case his tory of the hlehhana epidemic which swept Manhattan in an unnamed year, made everybody uninhibited and hence happy. It is also the history of unsmiling Jim Rowan, Acting Commissioner of New York's Department of City Planning, who had to cope with the public and private consequences of the euphoric disaster...
Humming in a Helmet. At this point, Acting Commissioner of City Planning Jim Rowan returned from lobbying in Washington. Rowan had reason to be grim. His beautiful actress wife, Niobe, had contracted hlehhana and had left him. She also left a note: "I feel perfectly humming and I haven't had anything. Not a drop. So I'm going right out to do all the other things I've always wanted to do, and God knows when I'll be back. The ice cream is in the oven...
...then Rowan had caught hlehhana himself, had made love to four women, including his secretary. A cold wave cooled him off, along with Niobe and everybody else...
Died. Lieut. Colonel Andrew Summers Rowan, 85, the Spanish-American War Lieutenant who delivered the famed "message to Garcia"; in the Army's Letterman Hospital in San Francisco. He was sent by President McKinley at war's outbreak to learn from Cuban insurgent General Calixto Garcia the strength of Garcia's forces. He carried his instructions in his head, but uplifter Elbert Hubbard's editorial, A Message to Garcia, put a letter in his hand, later put money in Hubbard's pocket, ultimately sold more than 40,000,000 copies. Rowan's reward...