Dooley's Wife Vanishes and Newsroom Weighs In
In a city desk tale a man named Clarence Q Dooley is shaken when his wife Emma Dooby leaves after ten years. Dooley contemplates suicide as editors and fellow reporters recount their strained, comic, and tragic observations while aiding his search. They send him away to a Tennessee village, and a postcard hints at a possible reunion, but Mrs. Dooley never returns.