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Newlyweds who took a broad hint and dropped $2 or more into Clerk McCormick's open, cash-filled drawer, got a "God bless you." Those who paid nothing had "Cheap skate!" yelled after them. One man testified that when he gave $1, Clerk McCormick remarked with some disgust: "One lousy buck...
...spied a kneeling man who towered above the others. He asked the prelate at his side, ''Isn't that Primo Camera?" It was. Said the Pope, who disapproves of prizefighting. "It seems God could not enrich him physically more abundantly." When he raised his arm to bless the group, he gestured specially at Italy's heavyweight champion...
...increasingly frequent through the year. Railway and steamship lines advertising Holy Year tours point out that scarcely a week will pass without the Pope taking part in some ceremony. Kings and queens and ex-monarchs will visit him. Easter Sunday he will pontificate in St. Peter's, perhaps bless the multitude from the loggia as no other Pope has done since 1870. In June there will be six or seven canonization and beatification ceremonies. On the Feast of Corpus Christi in June, the Pope may visit Rome for the first time in his eleven-year pontificate...
Replied Convert Mann: "May God bless your profound graciousness and sweet soul...
...quite a satisfactory one, too, right up to the last. At this point, ha, ha, that is, were you ever told 1. That the show must go on 2. Laugh, you clown, though your heart is breaking 3. I guess you got me, kid, but good luck and God bless you (coughs gently, dies)? It just seems that no motion picture director can ever pass by a chance to introduce one of these three themes. Bobe and Ruby have a little scene that sort of embodies all three. A really good censor would have cut it out and left...