"The Drugstore Cowboy" by Cornell Woolrich [short story from McClure's 1927-10]

"The Drugstore Cowboy" by Cornell Woolrich [short story from McClure's 1927-10]

Year: 1927

Rare short story from Woolrich's "jazz-age romance" period which was published in the October 1927 issue of McClure's magazine. NOTE: The CBZ version was run through ScanTailor, with some minor (mostly ineffective) dewarping, and a textured paper background was added. SYNOPSIS: A poor young layabout who hangs around the local drugstore with his buddies (drugstore cowboys) meets and wins the girl of his dreams and becomes rich and famous as a radio singer. From Cornell Woolrich: First You Dream, Then You Die by Francis M. Nevins, Jr.: ""The Drugstore Cowboy" ( McClure's , October 1927) is an even sillier concoction, its only historical interest being that it's Woolrich's earliest work to be set completely outside of Manhattan. In a small town in mid-America, happy-go-lucky lounger Jerry Jones accidentally meets and instantly falls for Betty Reeves, daredevil daughter of the richest family in the community. Woolrich did seem to be obsessed with rich girl-poor boy romances that year! Jerry sets out to make a name for himself in New York, promising to return for Betty in exactly one year. During that year she meets an overweight Lothario named Gordon Nye, who maneuvers her into an enga