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...What really matters, says Jackson, is the effect of the crime, as the tabloids play all its angles across the board, on the minds of you-and-you-and-you. Using an unimaginative hopscotch technique, he jumps from one character to another and back again, winds up with a notebook full of unconvincing case histories. Samples: ¶Handsome Jim Harron, a well-paid New York publicity man, is unnerved, then regenerated, by the crime and a visit to the victim's father. The effect on Harron is to make him see that he must return to his estranged wife...
Elat on his back with a fever of 104, the local depester gasped a call for a visit from his system-playing sidekick, who showed up well before post time with a notebook-full of racing forms and large, coarse bills...
...notes in his folder and was stepping off his stand. A perplexed hush followed. Vag looked around, a bit puzzled, but nobody moved. Pink and purple argyles, he thought, was this a last class? Still nobody moved, but Vag decided to risk a gambit and slapped his notebook closed with a loud crack. It was the right thing to do, for right away his row was clapping and the whole class caught on when the professor reached the door. Dr. Fairexam (office hours Mondays and Fridays) footnoted the applause with a smile and Vag congratulated himself for his foresight...
...played with the idea as he flipped his notebook from hand to hand. A committee to solve all conflicts! In his hazy mind's eye, he imagined a crowd watching the news roll around the Times Tower and yelling II, IV, VI, VIII, who do we appreciate? So simple too--give each problem a number and get everlasting peace. Vag hurried to reach University Hall before his white hope had faded...
Wearing a green carnation in his buttonhole, President Truman walked briskly into the great House chamber. In face of a cold audience of Representatives and Senators, he flipped open a brown notebook and read from it. Though he looked like a man who was in a hurry to be off to a St. Patrick's Day parade, the President had something to say; he said it as earnestly and forcefully as he could. He issued a call to arms...