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...reason. The hero, Billy Bigelow, having committed suicide, is led off by two unidentified gentlemen in tweed suits. In spite of his protests he is taken around the front door of heaven and sent in the back way under the "mother of pearly" gates where he meets heaven's janitor dusting off stars. By now reduced to nothing more than a slushy dramatization of the maxim to live your own life regardless of what your parents were or did, "Carousel" concludes with Billy returning to earth for a day to cheer up his family...
...that he's finally learned to say "about" and "come," Tom Wileaux seems destined for certain success in the social world. Spearling of carcers, Abe Zeleznik could, as someone so quaintly said, in a chit for the janitor's jab if he stayed much longer after Full Studies and Management...
...years, Billy says, he has refused anyone "the privilege of putting a penny" in his ventures. "I am more comfortable on my own. Top stars are problem children, and I am reconciled to being an emotional janitor." But lately he has been happiest when he could get away from it all and concentrate on fitting up his new offices. "A Chippendale chair," he remarks, "can't talk back...
...only other witness was Mrs. Z's janitor. He deposed: Mrs. Z led a solitary life, contributed little to Nazi Winter Relief, did not read any Party newspaper, never attended Nazi meetings...
Archie McConnell, Adams House janitor, found the storm "of gale proportions," but not much heavier than the average "north or south-easter." The only damage was several broken windows in the Randolph section. Accounting for the fact that the hurricane did not reach the proportions of the 1938 tempest, when traffic was halted for several days, McConnell declared sagely that "it went...