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...since the Easter Sunday (1937) murder of Model Veronica Gedeon had Manhattan newsmen had a really good chance to indulge in boob-catching antics like diagrams with X's marking spots. This one looked as if it would back the Gedeon killing on to the trash pile...
Seed of the Martyrs. Periodically, the Roman Catholic Church and the Kingdom of Piedmont (the present Italian royal house) sent soldiers to exterminate them. The terrible Piedmont Easter massacre (1655) moved Oliver Cromwell to decree a public fast to show English sympathy for the Waldensians. Cromwell warned the Duke of Savoy that if such a thing happened again the British fleet would bombard Nice. The massacre also brought from John Milton his thunderous sonnet...
Bernard Shaw wrote to Chesterton: "Faith is a curious thing. . . . You will have to go to Confession next Easter; and I find the spectacle-the box, your portly kneeling figure, the poor devil inside wishing you had become a Fire-worshipper instead of coming there to shake his soul with a sense of his ridiculousness and yours-all incredible, monstrous, comic...
...this bluff treatment of the women who pay $37.75 and up for a hat, Ben is rewarded with fawning affection. Last Easter 22 of his clients were so grateful that they threw a surprise cocktail party for him in his shop, complete with hors d'oeuvres from his own hat boxes, passed around by their assembled chauffeurs...
...Shortages. When workers ran short of alarm clocks and washing machines, Albina bought up 800 old clocks, sent as far as St. Louis for a broken-down washing machine, fixed them up and sold them at cost. Other dodges: 800 lilies were sold to workers at cost at Easter; the less pious can buy at any time special Varga-type-girl calendars. An Albina soil expert counsels 1,000 Victory gardeners. Haircut absenteeism was cut by persuading nearby barbers to sloganize "An Albina Man Is Always Next." Albina's own cobbler gives three-day service v. three weeks downtown...