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When the telephone jingles at the headquarters of Marseille's police judiciaire, everybody scrambles to answer, for the caller may well be somebody with a thick French southern accent saying: "If you go to such and such a place, you will find a bundle of valuable stolen merchandise." A few years ago, the voice directed the cops to an $800,000 cache of jewels, stolen from the Aga Khan's wife, that had been returned, thoughtfully enough, to the front steps of police headquarters...
...February 14 of last year, an anonymous caller told the police to be on the lookout for a letter that contained a railroad baggage check which led to the recovery of 20 modern paintings, worth $600,000, stolen from the Riviera's Colombe d'Or Inn in St.-Paul-de-Vence on April Fool's Day, 1960. Last week, la belle téléphone rang again, with even more spectacular news...
...Williams) suffocates in a shoe factory and goes to movies to daydream of escape. The daughter Laura (Williams' sister Rose) has a mind and a personality as fragile as the little glass animals that deck her room. But the mother dragoons Tom into bringing home a marriageable "gentleman caller" for Laura. When the caller turns out to be engaged, and unintentionally breaks the pet unicorn in Laura's menagerie, the girl's future can be read in the fractured glass. At play's end, Tom lunges free of family, but for the playwright...
...Beggar Bar-where he wore a black eye patch with a libidinous white eye painted on it; he had undergone the first of four eye operations. Moving on to Hollywood, he wrote unused film scripts for MGM, until he was fired. One of the scripts was titled The Gentleman Caller, which became The Glass Menagerie...
That's for me, automation! Please order lor this parish the following automatic machines: One sermon writer and preacher, one acolyte trainer, one paperwork machine with built-in duplicator, one parish caller, one sinner converter, one confession hearer and consultant. Both my curate and I are fed up with being human beings in a 70-hour week...