Chapter Nine Summary

Back in New York Al gets his old job back at the Record and starts to get Hollywood off of his mind. After a month Al's only thoughts about Sammy are when he gets the urge to read about him in the papers or magazines. One day Al is in the office, drinking with some of the other writers and somehow the conversation lands on the topic of Sammy Glick. After they all reminisce about their individual moments with Sammy, they start taking bets on where Sammy was born and raised. The bet makes Al start digging into Sammy's background using his personnel file at the Record. The search leads him to Sammy's family and eventually Sammy's entire life story until he arrived at the Record.

Sammy's full name is Samuel Glickstein and he is born Shmelka Glickstein. His father, Max...