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When I got back to the office, the place was In an uproar and Dagny looked panicked.
“You won’t believe what’s been going on here,” she said, pulling me into Allegra’s office, a copy of the Hits in her hand. She flipped to Cindy Adams’s column. I read down a couple of paragraphs until I saw what had her so upset:

Heard that my favorite downtown sibling act have their holidays mixed up. Seems that Phil and Tony Waxman are playing Cupid to help one of their top lady executives find her one and only. Fellas, if you get the call, take them up on it and take her out. She’s a classy, smart broad who’s just gotten a little stuck in the starting gate.

“Did you tell Vivian about this right away?” I was dreading a repeat performance by Yvonne.
“No, because it wasn’t in the paper,” She showed me the actual clipping, which had a different item in that space, one predicting splitsville for a long-estranged political couple. What was going on?
Squinting at the Xeroxed page, I could just make out a faint shadow running around the item. “And extremely careful cut-and-paste job,” I said, pointing out the razor-thin line to Dagney. “Someone’s sabotaged the Hits.”