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...actually has a slightly engaging twist. But surely no one would say, "Wonderful, hilarious, often touching and always entertaining." Or "It's the best entertainment of the season." That Rex Reed, Syndicated Columnist, and Vernon Scott, UPI, did is proof enough that our society is truly pluralistic. As James Madison could have said but didn't, "Different strokes for different folks." Assuming that some small number of readers might share Mr. Reed's or Mr. Scott's sentiments, what follows is a short list of the movie's contents. It they sound appealing, the film is still showing at many...
DIED. John J. Bergen, 84, a Pennsylvania mine owner's son who became a top industrialist and investment banker, playing a leading role in the construction of the new $100 million Madison Square Garden in New York City in 1968; in Cuernavaca, Mexico...
...million marks. Sophie could find work only half a day a week -sewing men's shirts. Her friends sought jobs in The Netherlands and Spain. "But for me," Sophie recalls, "America was the thing." She was fortunate in having a sponsor: an uncle who ran a bakery in Madison, Ind. He paid for her steerage-class ticket and sent $25, the amount needed to prove to the U.S. that she would not become a public charge...
...young single women would become prostitutes. So great was that concern that if a woman claimed she was engaged, immigration officials actually hunted up her fiance and saw to it that they were mar ried before relinquishing control over the newcomer. Authorities wired Sophie's un cle in Madison before letting her visit relatives in New York. The first days in Manhattan were overwhelming. Sophie had never seen subways, trolley cars, coal stoves, pineapples and mobs of people "so friendly you did not have to be afraid to talk even if you didn't speak English. In Europe...
Because New York was then bubbling and oozing Democratic conventioneers from every access point, it seemed derelict not to inquire if they were headed toward Madison Square Garden...