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I decided that I would start writing the daily column without waiting for Alan Cromwell's O. K. To write something new and interesting each day, and keep it within the spatial limits allotted, demanded a bit of practice. I thought it well to be a few columns ahead; if Cromwell kept his word I would already be in the groove. In order to determine which had the most appeal, I tried out a variety of styles. I knew there would be days when I would be incapable of writing a word. I wasn't going to be caught napping.
Meanwhile Mona had taken a temporary job as hostess in one of the Village night clubs-Remo's. Mathias, the real-estate operator, wasn't quite ready to launch her. Why, I couldn't discover. It might be, of course, that she had first to cool him off a bit. Sometimes these admirers of hers became too impetuous, wanted to marry her without delay. So she maintained.