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I mean before he died.

The trouble with Quent was that, like so many star newspapermen, he had a fondness for the bottle. He married a beautiful girl. Virginia Pine was her name. She had been in Lady in the Dark, Moss Hart's play. Quent, a big, burly newspaperman, stole this beautiful girl away from movie star George Raft. That's how attractive he was. They were married and had a stormy but very happy life, except that he used to drive Ginny crazy by, when they were going out to some swell party, just about making it home and then falling down. He could really stow the booze away! He just simply couldn't stop drinking. He'd swear he would, but he kept falling off the wagon.

Finally Ginny Pine couldn't stand it any longer. She divorced him and married Bernie Foy, who had been married to the Chrysler girl. Ginny is now leading a very respectable life, but I'm sure that in her heart she misses Quent a little bit.

Quent was a great friend of the Harriman's...Governor Harriman and Marie. Everybody loved him. Unfortunately, it got so, after awhile, that people were afraid to invite him to their homes any longer because he invariably would drink too much and cause a scene.

You know, some people can write under the influence...

Quent emerged as a hero in a famous case when Westbrook