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...tucked away $40,000 in the bank and owned property worth $73,000. "I got a lot of money at different times from my sister for years and years," said he. District Attorney Ramie Griffin explained that a $6,000 extra-income figure on his tax returns represented gin-rummy winnings...
...total at nearly 700. It was the highest highway toll for the three-day holiday weekend since the "Black Christmas" of 1955, when 609 were killed and 201 of the injured died later. In 1961, as always, the first few hours of the weekend were the deadliest as the gin-glazed celebrators motored unsteadily home from office Christmas parties...
...college Mollie embraces boys, Shakespeare ("fabulous"), an avant-garde poetry instructor, folk singing, atomic protest ("Free Bertrand Russell!"). She comes home on vacation a cool sophisti-cat, all burnished claws and no filial purr, and asks what kind of gin Daddy uses in his martinis. As Dad turns the color of vermouth, Mom remarks sagely that Mollie will "never again be as old as she is right...
...Capra tells the teary tale, raggedy Annie has an iron kidney and a golden heart. People think she is selling apples just to make gin money. Little do they know that the burlapidated old bag is (violins can now be heard sobbing on the sound track) An Unwed Mother. Yes, the dear old girl is living on Gordon's and garbage, and sending every lousy nickel to a Spanish convent, where her wide-eyed, ever-loving daughter lives with some kind old nuns who teach her to be a lady and shield her from the awful truth about...
...while the hyperbole count was down, the sound of superlatives was as loud as ever. Examples: "World's most obedient bed" (a mattress firm), "newest and purest" (a car), "most useable, liveable, likeable" (another car), "most mysterious" (a cosmetic), "most heavenly drink on earth" (a blend of gin, herbs and fruit flavoring). Said New Yorker Advertising Director A. J. Russell Jr., drawing on the wisdom of 33 years' experience: "We never win completely...