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The rebel's ecstasy: bohemian and journalist Adam McCay.(Literature)
JOURNALISM, poetry and alcohol: the three are inseparable in the story of Adam Cairns McCay (1874-1947).
LATE ONE AFTERNOON in 1933, a pretty seventeen-year-old girl twirled around in a new dress, admiring herself in the mirror. She looked a picture. What a pity, she thought, that she was on her own at home; she deserved admirers. At that moment the doorbell of the Pymble bungalow rang. She hurried to the door, a vision in cascading cream silk. On the doorstep stood her two uncles, Adam McCay, the high-profile journalist, and Campbell McCay, the inventor of a block and tackle and aspiring poet. Greeting her with gasps of admiration, they asked to see her father. ...
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