Does everyone else always read the footnotes? I found this one interesting:
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To say, “So-and-So5 was at the table next to us at the Trocadero. She’s really a mess, but she does wear nice clothes.’’ And he, “I talked to good sound business men out there. They don’t see a chance till we get rid of that fellow in the White House.” And, “I got it from a man in the know—she has syphilis, you know—she was in that Warner picture. Man said she’d slept her way into pictures. Well, she got what she was looking for.’’ But the worried eyes are never calm, and the pouting mouth is never glad. The big car cruising along at sixty.
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5 So-and-So: In The Grapes of Wrath typescript (p. 248), Steinbeck used the name of a real movie star, Joan Crawford (1908-1977), but later changed it to this far more innocuous and less libelous reference.
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