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...they realized their mistake: "It didn't fit in with a young girl who was footloose & fancy-free. So we had their baby die of pneumonia after Stephen had taken him out in the rain, and then killed him off with a heart attack. For two weeks afterward we kept Chichi off the air in the interests of good taste, and that was that. He was never mentioned again...
...mayor was in England. Governor Herter walked into the city hall in the middle of the night, found the council in complete confusion. He calmly restored order by getting state agencies at work on emergency measures and promising that the state would do everything possible to-speed rehabilitation. Shortly afterward, Herter asked the general court for $5,000,000 in relief funds and tax abatements on damaged property, and personally led in the raising of public contributions...
Herter himself was cornered soon afterward by a group of prominent Bay State Republicans, including Joe Martin, Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. and Sinclair Weeks. For the good of the party, they said, he should run for the governorship of Massachusetts. Strangely enough, their proposition made Herter angry. "You're just trying to get me out of Washington," he cried. He strongly suspected Dwight Eisenhower wanted him to be Under Secretary of State, and he liked the idea. In the end, his conscience and the importunings of his son Chris Jr.* took him into the gubernatorial campaign...
Faction v. Faction. Soon afterward, a new statue appeared on Don Silvio's lawn -a large toad with a human head. Carmine Guarino saw it and made the mistake of complaining in public. Soon all of Contrada was flocking to the Capuana estate to look at the new portrait and laugh at its subject. Professor Guarino writhed in an agony of shame. Silvio broke precedent by driving into the village to write, "Life can be beautiful," in bold, black letters on the side of his desecrated tomb. Carmine promptly brought suit for defamation of character...
...months afterward the Contradese argued the merits of the impending case. By last week it had split the village in two. On each side of the road, a long line of villagers marched to the provincial court in Avellinp. Neither file deigned to speak or even look at the other. As the trial progressed, open warfare between the factions was averted only by the judge's threat to clear the court-nobody could bear the thought of being shut out. But when the verdict came, nobody could say who was the victor. The offending statue was ordered...