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...tomfool thing that happens to cross his mind. One morning, sick of looking at a neighbor's purple house, Papa grabs a ladder and-splat! the neighbor's house is painted white. One afternoon, annoyed when a drugstore proprietor bullies the errand boy, Papa yanks out his checkbook, buys the store, makes the errand boy the boss and the boss the errand boy. And one fine day, when his daughter falls in love with a circus pony, Papa promises he will buy it and he does-even though he has to buy the circus...
...Roof. Part of the strain, of course, is financial; the checkbook never seems ready for the unexpected demands. The well-in-advance, all-too-legibly-signed Christmas card "from your garbage man" and "your mailman," the armies of elevator operators and invisible attendants that materialize for apartment dwellers, the soaring cost of trees and festivities -this is only part of it. There is the problem of the Rich Relation who sprays the family with costly presents-how much reciprocity is necessary? There is the problem of the Marginal Pal who somewhere along the way has moved from the list...
Crises may come and crises may go, but concern about the economy remains clear and constant as the $ sign in a checkbook. No one understands this fact-at least in its political meaning-better than President Kennedy. Yet it was also characteristic that the President scheduled a major speech for this week before the nation's top businessmen at New York's Economic Club without anyone's having thought much about what he would say. Thus a top Kennedy aide, when asked last week for an advance fillin, simply shrugged: "I haven't even started...
...story to the Express-which was shrewdly holding off a while, perhaps until Hanratty's date with the gallows. The prices that Fleet Street paid for its stories were not high; the Express, for example, managed to sew up its principals for some $8,000. Yet for unabashed checkbook journalism, Fleet Street has its own style...
...sensible the necessity of protecting the privacy even of the man in the dock, the British system has its drawbacks. For one, witnesses already under hire by some newspaper face an irresistible impulse to embroider the truth for the sake of tomorrow's headlines. And Britain's checkbook journalism has inspired in the heart of many a felon the conviction that crime does pay. Said Stuart Campbell, editor of the People (circ. 5,450,727): "It's getting to the point that when you ask anyone the color of his hat, he says, 'Six quid...