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...grey, lace-curtained house at 17 Fourth Street in the factory district of Waterbury, Conn. After the guards were set, plainclothesmen walked up the steps and pounded loudly on the front door. The downstairs lights winked on, and stocky, smiling, pajama-clad George Metesky, a 54-year-old bachelor, answered the knock. His two elderly spinster sisters watched warily in the background. George never lost his polite grin. "I think.'' he said after a few preliminary questions and answers. "I know why you fellows are here. You think I'm the Mad Bomber...
...hours dispatching business messages. Thus was born the notion of Kreuger as a dedicated, enigmatic Caesar of international finance. It was on another trip that Kreuger made his only recorded witticism. When asked by a ship reporter if he had come to marry an American heiress, the lifelong bachelor replied: "No, I much prefer a Swedish match...
...Psychiatry to Chopin. Abby rarely clucks at length over the details of dating and mating. When a theater cashier confided her secret passion for the married manager, Abby counseled: "Find another job. It's not worth being the tail-end of a double feature." A bachelor confided that he knew a sweet, demure girl who would make a wonderful wife, and another girl, "uninhibited, gay." who "comes up to my room." "How," he asked, "shall I discourage this girl?" Quipped Abby: "Which girl?" When a California husband complained that his wife, though "smoochable, affectionate and responsive" before marriage...
Bundle of Joy (RKO Radio). The original of this movie, released in 1939, was called Bachelor Mother, a title bearing such intimations of immorality that the studio had to fight the censors to retain it. The movie was a spoof of bastardy. But with Ginger Rogers and David Niven starred in it and with Hollywood's boy wonder of the day, 26-year-old Garson Kanin, directing, the spoof was wholesome, human and hilarious. Bundle of Joy is wholesome. It is an energetic attempt to prove that what was done so deftly in the '30s, Hollywood...
...this year jumped back into the political wars to block Dennis Roberts' fourth-term ambitions. Young Republicans organized an effective doorbell campaign. Disgruntled state employees flocked to ex-Employee Del Sesto's support. Attractive Lola Del Sesto and their three sons gave him an emotional appeal that Bachelor Denny Roberts did not have. Most important of all, much of the Italian-American vote shook off Democratic habit to boost a man with a name like Del Sesto...