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...pushcart peddler who emigrated from Italy in 1881, founded a lard-rendering business and then expanded almost as fast as Sáo Paulo itself. His son has tripled the empire and is still abuilding. Though his announced net profits last year were $17.5 million, the count is notoriously coy about what he actually makes. His personal fortune tops $100 million. He is building a Roman Catholic cathedral. When his daughter Filomena (Fifi) got married a few years ago, he staged a fabulous reception, with special trains to help haul the 2,000 guests, and gold vanity-case souvenirs...
...this, the shade of her eyes, sir?" she asked the broad, blue-suited gentleman. "Not sure," he replied. "Had a light tan mink in mind, to go with her hair." "Well then," the saleslady replied in a coy tone of voice, "why not buy her both? Everyone gives mink coats for Christmas, but not many men give two." The man thought this over...
...news. She impresses him as a lunatic, disrupts his wedding, woos him in a boxcar, wins him with the connivance of a poor but dishonest psychiatrist (Richard Carlson). By the time MacMurray is convinced that the inheritance is actually his, the money has flown. His problem, and an interminably coy movie, could have been mercifully forestalled by a phone call in the first reel...
College football histories traditionally read like almanacs, and are coveted only by that species whose cocktail party coup is to name the starting lineup of the 1909 Harvard-Yale debacle. Yale football, however, with its Pudge Heffelfinger, Ted Coy, Little Boy Blue Albie Booth , a great winning record, and a sensationalism now fostered by Herman Hickman offers a natural source material of interest to football fans who never sat in the New Haven saucer...
McCarthy the investigator took his place in the Senate hearing room where the Hoey subcommittee, of which he is a member, grilled Bill Boyle. McCarthy was stern with witnesses. "Don't be coy with me," he snapped at Boyle's friend Max Siskind. But in mid-session, McCarthy had to leave. "I happen to be testifying myself," he explained...