EARL WILSON, New Yolk's newest
night-life columnist, writes here about bar flies, chorus girls, double-talk
experts, Frank Sinatra, Betty Grable, and the brightest members of Booze Who,
the Actors' Equity, and Cafe Society. He ranges from stories about luscious
beauties to reports on the "Three B's—Beer, Busts, and Behinds."
Wilson's nighttime New York is a bizarre
and hilarious orgy seen through the eyes of an observer who manages to be both
aloof and enthusiastic. As a fugitive from a farm near Rockford, Ohio, he retains
a visitor's delight in big-city sights. Every time he enters an after-dark spot
(he visits thirty-five major ones regularly, twenty lesser ones in between) he
is aquiver with expectation. At the same time, Wilson takes celebrities in his
stride, delighting in the foibles of the famous. With his Saloon Editor column
syndicated from coast to coast and in four Hawaiian newspapers (by special
request of the troops there), his radio program, and this book, Wilson's 8-ball
is in the side pocket.
This special edition of I Am GAZING INTO
MY 8-BALL by Earl Wilson has been made available to the Armed Forces of the United
States through an arrangement with the original publisher. Doubleday. Doran and
Co., Inc., New York.
Editions for the Armed Services, Inc., a
non-profit organization established by the Council on Books in Wartime
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