x**e 发帖数: 315 | 1 J. D. Salinger
Elaine
Story XXV, March/April 1945, pages 38-47
ON an exquisite Saturday afternoon in June, an assistant watch repairer named
Dennis Cooney temporarily distracted the audience at an indoor flea circus
just off Forty-third and Broadway by dropping dead. He was survived by his
wife, Evelyn Cooney, and a daughter, Elaine, aged six, who had won two
Beautiful Child contests; the first at the age of three, the second at the age
of five, being defeated when she was four by a Miss Zelda “ |
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