Torchy and Vee

THE QUICK SHUNT FOR PUFFY I must say I didn't get much excited at first over this Marion Gray tragedy. You see, I'd just blown in from Cleveland, where I'd been shunted by the Ord...

OLD HICKORY BATS UP ONE Anybody would most think I'd been with the Corrugated Trust long enough to know that Old Hickory Ellins generally gets what he wants, whether it's quick ac...

TORCHY PULLS THE DEEP STUFF Course, I didn't know what Old Hickory was stackin' me up against when he calls me into the private office and tells me to shake hands with this Mr. Mc...

A FRAME-UP FOR STUBBY I expect I shouldn't have been so finicky. I ain't as a rule. My usual play is to press the button and take whoever is sent in from the general office. But t...

THE VAMP IN THE WINDOW It was a case of Vee's being in town on a shoppin' orgie and my being invited to hunt her up about lunch time. "Let's see," she 'phoned, "suppose you meet ...

TURKEYS ON THE SIDE Say, I hope this Mr. Hoover of ours gets through trying to feed the world before another fall. It's a cute little idea all right and ought to get us in strong ...

ERNIE AND HIS BIG NIGHT I'm kind of glad I was with Ernie when he had his big night. If I hadn't been I never would have believed it of him. Not if he'd produced affidavits. No! I...

HOW BABE MISSED HIS STEP What Babe Cutler was plannin' certainly listened like a swell party--the kind you read about. He was going to round up three other sports like himself, ch...

HARTLEY AND THE G. O. G.'S "Oh, I say, Torchy," calls out Mr. Robert, as I'm reachin' for my hat here the other noon, "you don't happen to be going up near the club on your way to...

THE CASE OF OLD JONESEY And then again, you can't always tell. I forget whether it was Bill Shakespeare first sprung that line, or Willie Collier; but whoever it was he said a who...

AS LUCY LEE PASSED BY Someone put on that Tales of Hoffman record, please, with a soft needle. Thanks. Now if you'll turn out all but one bulb in the old rose-shaded electrolier a...

TORCHY MEETS ELLERY BEAN Course, I was sayin' it mostly to kid Vee along. I expect I'm nearly as strong for this suburban life stuff as she is, but whenever she gets a bit gushy a...

TORCHY STRAYS FROM BROADWAY "I must say it listens kind of complicated," says I, after Vee has explained how I am to arrive at this country house weddin' fest. "Why, Torchy, it's...

SUBBING FOR THE BOSS How's that? Has something happened to me? Course there has. Something generally does, and if I ever get to the point where it don't I hope I shall have pep en...

A LATE HUNCH FOR LESTER You might not guess it, but every now and then I connect with some true thought that makes me wiser above the ears. Honest, I do. Sometimes they just come ...

TORCHY TACKLES A MYSTERY I'll admit I didn't get all stirred up when Mr. Robert comes in from luncheon and announces that this Penrhyn Deems person is missing. "On how many cylin...

WITH VINCENT AT THE TURN It was Mr. Piddie who first begun workin' up suspicions about Vincent, our fair haired super-office boy. But then, Piddie has that kind of a mind. He must...