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Aspirin Parties. Kellerman, an ex-G.I. started his assignment by getting a short haircut, putting away his horn-rimmed glasses, and dressing in a tattered lumber-jacket and an old pair of Army pants. Late one night he was driven to Riverhead (pop. 4,892), the county seat 60 miles away from the paper's office, where he would not be recognized, and dropped off near a bar. Kellerman hung around the bar, making an obvious show of casing the place, while the proprietor and his wife eyed him suspiciously. After closing time Kellerman went around...
...where the tree of heaven which also grows in Brooklyn thrusts bravely upward from narrow sidewalks, a man emerges almost every day bound for Washington Square, a few blocks away. A weathered hat rides high on a head seeking to soar from squared shoulders loosely draped in an old jacket, from the left pocket of which protrudes a notebook. The face under the hat takes daylight as though it and the light and air are friends. Hazel eyes, which now seem abstracted, can, in the closer proximity of a room, . pierce disconcertingly or brim with laughter or mischief like...
Slim but gentle is the order of the day in the city. A smooth jacket, buttoned short of the waist, and giving a pleasant high-waisted look. Wool complimented with sealskin and just plain tweed are busy above and underground--the murmur of the city is the murmur of slenderness and simplicity. Coats are short...
...sporadically amusing spoof, Bonzo Goes to College leans almost entirely for its laughs on the mugging of its sawed-off leading man. Looking something like a cross between Mickey Rooney and William Bendix in a porkpie hat, Eton jacket and long trousers and suspenders, Bonzo somehow manages to keep the show going without any visible assistance from writers, director and supporting cast...
...passed by the checker's desk, Vag automatically picked up one of the little white slips and stuffed it in the breast pocket of his jacket, already bristling with silverwear put there some days ago at supper and since forgotten. He went down the line absent-mindedly, only the thud of mashed potatoes being dumped upon his tray reminding him of his surroundings. At the end of the line Vag picked up a coffiee and then stopped. He peered out over the tables packed with babling undergraduates, all of them waving their arms back and forth energetically. Over the monstrous...