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The Woman Chaser

Charles Willeford

Published 1960

The chase was furious--the capture was rapacious--the prize was luscious!

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Using the thumb and forefinger of the right hand, get a little slack and pull the film through this little thing-a-ma-jig. Clamp here. Leave a small loop so it won't flutter, and then go up over this, down under this, around this, and then tight around the big one. (It has to fit tight on the sound drum). Then under this, over this, under this again, around this, and down. Insert the feeder in the lower reel and you are almost ready. Turn on the sound and let it warm up. See the tiny red light? Now out with the houselights and flip the toggle switch to ON. If the sound is loud enough the incidental slithering of the film won't bother you a bit. ...

Richard Hudson pressed the counter in his hand one more time before he took a look at it. 873. That was a lot of iron to pass one spot in fifteen minutes. And more passed the other way going toward Hollywood. 927. The Los Angeles Transit Company bus stopped at the corner every fourteen minutes discharging an average of six passengers, taking on five. Across the street on the other corner a streetcar stopped every seven minutes, and three men and one woman and one child got aboard, while two women and one child dismounted. That was the average for the location. Richard Hudson had been checking it for two days.

A beautiful average and a wonderful location. And yet, the used car dealer across the street sat on his big fat keister smoking cigarettes and gurgling Coca-Colas all day long when he had thirty-five unsold aut

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