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Truman and Harper Lee went out to Manhattan. Two days later Jim called me up. He said, “I want to report on the visit of Mr. Capote and the little girl that was with him. They are both great. It's lucky you warned me about Truman, though, because he came waltzing in with a pink velvet coat on and announced, ‘I bet I'm the first man that has ever come to Manhattan, Kansas wearing a Dior jacket.'” McCain said, “I'll go you one better, Mr. Capote. You're the first man or woman who ever came to Manhattan, Kansas wearing a Dior jacket.”

McCain continued, “I took him in to meet the faculty. I had told them what you said. I must now tell you that Truman left this morning with Miss Lee on the Santa Fe to go to Garden City, and the entire faculty got up to see him off at 6:30 this morning.” I said, “I told you.” He said, “I might as well finish my confession. Mrs. McCain and I got up too.” At six o'clock in the morning they all got up to see Truman off!

He got out to Garden City, where the head of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation was a man named Al Dewey. He was going crazy trying to solve this case. He had turned up nothing and people were getting angrier and angrier at him. Suddenly he looks up, and to add to his troubles here's little Truman Capote arrived to cover the case. Dewey tried to throw him out of Garden City. Two weeks later, Truman was living at the Dewey house. Today Truman Capote is seeing the two Dewey kids through college, and the Deweys and everybody else