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Let me say, right off, that Howie Duff is about as glamorous to me as a GI shoe. Yet, down the street is Howard’s rugged puss all colored up pretty, plastered 6n a billboard. I’ve seen a good deal of that face. I’ve seen it on such hot Pacific rocks as Saipan and Guam and here in my New York apartment.
I haven’t seen Howard in several months now, and his face is becoming unreal to me and so is he. This is embarrassing, but it isn't my friend Duff’s fault — he just happens to be a guy who is very good at his particular dodge. I go to the movies and find friend Duff is a tough gee rubbing out some gunsel, or serving a stretch for something I know he couldn’t possibly have done. It’s ridiculous. So is the stuff I’ve been seeing in print about his being “the new feminine heart-throb” and “one of the year’s thrilling finds.”
All this makes me nervous, so I wrote the guy and told him it had gone far enough, that I was going to expose him. He said to go ahead, but to keep in mind that he would be ringing my doorbell in a couple of months. As one ex-sergeant to another. Duff doesn’t (Continued on page 111)
just about as glamorous as a GI shoe
BY JACK SHER
Populstf date with Duff is Ava Gardner, who’d be just as glamorous behind a ribbon counter, so far as Howard is concerned