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...bigger audience than ever with newspaper ads to ballyhoo a mysterious "world-famous guest." As the guest walked front and center, the announcer intoned: "Our next guest on the golden threshold of the $64,000 Question is from Suffolk, England: Mr. Randolph Churchill." After wild applause, Master of Ceremonies Hal March moved in: Hal: What do you do for a living...
...Hal (coyly): How about your father? What does...
...Cream. Gracie put up with this sort of thing and much more. After all, Hal was not as bad as that young F. Scott Fitzgerald. But sadness enters the book as Lewis begins to struggle with the intangibles of his trade. He never developed anything but the vaguest philosophy. The man who had been America's topographer never mastered its geology. Under flattery and attention, Lewis began to show signs of egocentricity. Mrs. Lewis sadly records how the writer who had driven himself ("Where do I work?" was the first question he asked of a new house), began...
...marriage, Gracie says delicately, was "dissolved." Actually, she got a plain Reno divorce in 1928, lived to marry a New York investment counselor named Tellesforo Casanova. After a few years she wrote a novel setting Hal and the world to rights about the whole thing. The book was called Half a Loaf, and its heroine remarked, after leaving her writer-husband: "She had licked the cream off the milk pail; she had had the fresh half of the loaf." Twenty-five years later Gracie evidently thinks that bland diet...
...expensive pillar and posh post (King George V "saluted" him as he rode in London's Rotten Row) until he came to look at his famous father with a cool eye. He would brace himself to lecture him on the evils of drink only to find the unpredictable Hal had become his sober, fascinating self again. The boy's judgement still stands: "Father's a bit difficult at times, but I love the old bastard...