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Around Irma and Sam-and an assortment of turn-of-the-century islanders-Novelist William March fashions a choice tropical romp in the serio-comic vein of Satirists Aubrey Menen and Edgar Mittel-holzer...
...they had assumed the Lotus Position on a public street. Maceo & Co., Galveston's biggest gamblers, voluntarily shut the town down. And 15 of its 16 partners (some of whom belong to the chamber of commerce) refused to talk for fear of selfincrimination. But Top Partner Sam Serio, when promised immunity, spent days proudly telling the committee all about their empire. Sam, it became quite obvious, had civic pride...
...time Sam Maceo died of cancer recently, the Maceos were civic figures, big businessmen, heavy contributors to charities. This year, Serio estimated, their firm was grossing more than...
...from the Greek island of Levkas, had begun life in the U.S. as a brush-flipper and rag-flapper in a Kansas City shoeshine parlor operated by one George Giokaris. He left Kansas City in 1916. In the early 19205 he got a job with the FBI-then a serio-comic collection of political apple polishers commanded by that hoary old Private Eye, William J. Burns...
...this amusing, serio-comic study, Author Hodgins, one of FORTUNE'S editors, puts the Blandings over just about all the jumps that confront the well-set businessman and his wife in their expensive search for the simple life...