Advocate Disappointed

The punch was there. The guests, the most literary minded in Cambridge, were there. But the Advocate has yet to explain what happened to their guest of honor, Somerset Maugham. As usual on such occasions, rumors were plentiful. The one picked up by those "who are in a position to know," was that he had to catch a plane "somewhere." They say that the animal who has given rides to so many celebrities in the famous Advocate barouche wept bitter tears, took a slug of the punch, and promptly died.