detected a smear of lipstick. Hastily, with cremes and tissues, she removed the offending smudge, and with a hair-brush restored a perfect lip-line. For a full minute she mouthed into the mirror, retracting her lips and studying her teeth intently. Satisfied, she turned to enter the building.

The elevator boys stood in an obsequious row at the open doorways of their elevators. What was this, she thought, something new? It was, indeed. The old man at the far end had been replaced by a tall young stranger, broad of shoulder, with ruddy face and crisp blond hair. Maxene passed a hand through her long curls, arched her eyebrows and adjusted her fur-piece to a more fetching angle. She undulated towards his cage with the steps of a wellrehearsed mannequin as he, with a broad grin, appraised her from head to toe. Entering the cage she posed against a far corner, while he closed the door hastily against the possibility of additional riders. As the elevator started upward, he turned upon Maxene with an approving stare while she, in turn, bestowed upon him her most dazzling smile.

"Eighteen.

please."

ABOUT OUR

AUTHORS

GABRIELLE GANELLE has appeared in Miscellaneous Man, Whetstone, Climax and many others. She has written for ONE for the past year and a half; studied short story writing under Thomas E. Gaddis, author of the now-famous BIRDMAN OF ALCATRAZ.

CANDACE ORCUTT hails from New Jersey; aside from writing, she takes interest in art & music. Her future plans are for novel writing. GEOFFREY WRIGHT, who, until his "Trio For Two," was devoted almost solely to philosophical writing, comes from the Mid-west farming country. He says he first tried story writing "for relief of style," but later came to value the short story as an independent means of selfexpression.

THE WINNERS OF THE CONTEST WHICH CLOSED December 31, 1956, WILL BE ANNOUNCED IN ONE'S March, 1957 ISSUE.

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