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Johnny dies-on Christmas day, of course-in time to allow Katie (from whose beauty the bloom has not been rubbed by years of scrubbing tenement hallways) to marry long-suffering Ser geant McShane, whose invalid wife also conveniently expires. Francie, as the book ends, gets to college, thanks to McShane's $10,000 a year (he has become a Tammany Assemblyman...
...hear a radio? Did Goethe ever handle a camera? . . . Did Charles Lamb ever see Ginger Rogers or use a plastic toothbrush? Did Wordsworth ever cross in the Hudson Tunnel or drive on the Merritt Parkway? . . . Why must we be the mirror to the universe? Where are the standards? The invalid assumptions must fall away, and some common standard for all humanity must be rediscovered...
...then the first Mrs. Carroll to explain to the second why she is weak in the knees: Painter Jory is slowly poisoning her so he can marry the widow. He had tried the same stunt when he wanted to marry Miss Bergner. This useful disclosure not only warns the invalid but wakes up the audience, and leads to some belated suspense and slow-motion horror...
...opening for the Prayer of Consecration: "O Thou, Who at the marriage feast in Cana of Galilee didst turn the water into wine. . . ." (On his voyage to England months later the Bishop told a Roman Catholic priest about this. The priest was inclined to think the service invalid, but agreed that "God does sometimes work miracles...
...which Navy Secretary Frank Knox signed last November with Standard Oil of California to pump oil from Elk Hills, mumbled of Teapot Dome. By last week, two House committees, Naval Affairs and Public Lands, were probing the contract, which was abrogated after the Justice Department found it "illegal and invalid." They had failed to uncover any skulduggery...