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Unexpected Slip. The ceremony began. Mr. Summers, the leading businessman, was sworn in; the old black box containing the lottery slips was placed on a stool; the list of heads of families was read out. So familiar was the ritual that folks hardly listened at all. In the old days there had been a recital by the lottery official, but this time each family head just came up to draw his slip...
...Letters. Much the same class-conscious humiliation caused Shaw to leave his clerk's stool in a Dublin office and seek his fortune as a literary man-for "you cannot be imposed upon by baronets ... if you belong to the republic of art." He is sure that men of letters have been made this way, time & again. "Think of . . . the boy Dickens [working] in the blacking warehouse, and his undying resentment of his mother's wanting him to stay there. Think of Trollope, at an upper-class school with holes in his trousers, because his father could...
...loved him at sight. He told her, cautiously, that she was too good for him. He divulged his past: he had gone to Spain after a boyhood near Bridgeport, Conn., had married, fathered four children, deserted his wife, fought for Franco, and ended up in Gibraltar as a police stool pigeon. He had spent five months in jail (for theft) after landing back in the U.S. in 1946. He finally admitted that he preyed on women...
...hunt down the killers in lawful and orderly fashion. Gambler Raft, like all shady characters, is faithful to a code which scorns help from a copper. They argue this difference of technique, in a friendly way, until Raft's enemies, seeing them together, conclude that Raft is playing stool pigeon. That puts him in real trouble. There are also two girls, Marilyn Maxwell and Gail Robbins; both are easy to look at and one turns out to be treacherous...
...Negro and more noted for shiftiness than for a punch. But after the sixth round, Darthard looked in terrible shape. His manager tried questions again and got only a thick-tongued reply: "All I know is I'm fighting in Milwaukee." Then Darthard began tossing crazily on his stool and complaining that his head ached. He slumped over, mumbling incoherrently. They put him on a stretcher and carried him, unconscious, into a dressing room...