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conversations.value: What is a plot for a book about Dave, Gwen, Ginny entitled Some Came Running? Start with the sentence 'Some Came Running (film): Dave Hirsh (Frank Sinatra) is a cynical Army veteran who winds up in his hometown of Parkman after being put on a bus in Chicago while intoxicated'.
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conversations.value: Some Came Running (film): Dave Hirsh (Frank Sinatra) is a cynical Army veteran who winds up in his hometown of Parkman after being put on a bus in Chicago while intoxicated.\nGinny Moorehead (Shirley MacLaine), a woman of seemingly loose morals and poor education, was invited by Dave in his drunken state to accompany him to Parkman.\nWhen Dave sobers up, he realizes it was a mistake, and gives her money to return to Chicago.\nHowever, she decides to stay because she has fallen in love with Dave and is also trying to escape a violent boyfriend back in Chicago.\nDave left Parkman 16 years before and had a career as a writer, publishing two books.\nHe did not visit or stay in touch with his older brother, Frank (Arthur Kennedy), because he is still embittered about how Frank and his wife Agnes (Leora Dana) treated him when he was a child.\nFrank, who was newly married to the well-off Agnes, had placed him in a charity boarding school rather than take Dave to live in his home.\nFrank has since inherited a jewelry business from Agnes' father, sits on the board of a local bank, and is active in civic affairs.\nFrank and Agnes are very concerned about their social status and reputation in the town, which is threatened when Dave returns without letting them know and then deposits a large sum of his gambling winnings in the bank that competes with Frank's bank.\nFrank attempts to make amends with Dave in order to get him to move the bank deposit.\nAgnes wants nothing to do with Dave, but is forced to welcome him after two of her wealthy social acquaintances, Professor French (Larry Gates) and his daughter Gwen (Martha Hyer), a schoolteacher, ask to meet Dave because they admire his books.\nWhen Dave meets Gwen, he immediately falls in love with her.\nShe is attracted to him as well, but is afraid of the passionate feelings he arouses in her and of his lifestyle.\nEach time Gwen rejects him, he ends up back with Ginny, even though her lack of intelligence frustrates him and she is nothing like Gwen.\nDave has also befriended a hard-partying but good-hearted gambler, Bama Dillert (Dean Martin), and the two get into trouble when Ginny's ex-boyfriend, a gangster named Ray, comes to town stalking her.\nFrank is upset about the bad reflection on him from Dave's lifestyle.\nHowever, Dave is shown to be a good man despite his notorious reputation when he treats Ginny with kindness and takes a fatherly interest in his niece, Frank's daughter Dawn (Betty Lou Keim), who becomes upset and tries to run away when she sees her father in a lovers' lane with his secretary.\nDave's new story that he wrote with Gwen's encouragement is published in The Atlantic magazine, and Gwen confesses her love to him by telephone while he is on a gambling trip out of town with Bama and Ginny.\nGwen's phone call leads the gamblers to think Dave is cheating at cards, triggering a fight in which Bama is stabbed.\nGinny later visits Gwen at her school to ask if Gwen and Dave are in a relationship and confess her own love for Dave.\nGwen is horrified to discover Dave has been seeing Ginny, assures Ginny that there is nothing between her and Dave, and then cuts Dave off.\nDave, at the end of his rope from Gwen's rejection, decides to marry Ginny, even over Bama's objections.\nWhile she is not Dave's social or intellectual match, she gives him unconditional love that he's never had from anyone else.\nThe two marry, but soon after they leave the judge's house, Ray comes after them with a gun, shoots and injures Dave, and then shoots Ginny dead as she tries to protect Dave.\nDave, Bama and Gwen all attend her funeral.
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conversations.value: What is a plot for a book about Dave, Parkman, Chicago entitled Some Came Running?
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conversations.value: Some Came Running: Dave Hirsh is a cynical Army veteran who winds up in his hometown of Parkman after being put on a bus in Chicago while intoxicated.\nGinny Moorehead, a woman of seemingly loose morals and poor education, has taken the same bus.\nHirsh had left Parkman 16 years before when his older brother Frank placed him in a charity boarding school, and is still embittered.\nFrank has since married well, inherited a jewelry business from the father of his wife Agnes, and made their social status his highest priority.\nDave's return threatens this, so Frank makes a fruitless stab at arranging respectability, introducing him to his friend Professor French and his daughter Gwen, a schoolteacher.\nDave moves in different circles, however.\nHe befriends Bama Dillert, a gambler who has serendipitously settled in Parkman.\nTwo factors seem to offer Dave hope and redemption: he takes a fatherly interest in his niece, Frank's daughter Dawn, and falls in love with Gwen.\nDespite his somewhat notorious reputation, Dave is basically a good, honest man, well aware of his own shortcomings.\nHis cynicism is often a mask to hide the pain of rejection.\nThough Ginny is not his social or intellectual match, he eventually sees the basic good in her and responds to her unconditional love.\nIn the end, Ginny is stalked by her former boyfriend (a Chicago hoodlum), who shoots at Dave.\nGinny jumps in front of Dave and is shot in the back and dies.\nThe final scene is at Ginny's burial, shortly after Professor French and Gwen arrive.\nThe book's plot, taking place in peacetime civilian life, is framed by two short war episodes printed in Italics - the prelude depicting Hirsh's experiences in the Second World War, the aftermath having a younger character fighting and getting killed in the Korean War.\nThe latter character is also an aspiring writer, and his last thought before being killed in a grenade explosion is of the manuscript he would never complete.