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...picnic takes place on the go-acre estate of one "Pop" Larkin (Paul Douglas), a beer-bellied, golden-hearted. Godsend-payday paragon of the old-fashioned vices: civic irresponsibility and the right to shirk. Inevitably, the Internal Revenue Service (Tony Randall) tries to catch up with him. "I'd like to look at your books," says tight-lipped Tony, the perfect black-shoe bureaucrat. Douglas looks puzzled. "I don't do much reading," he replies. But Tony forges ahead, deeper and deeper into a slough of Southern hospitality...
Died. Sammy Bronstein, 81, onetime St. Louis newsboy who turned to money-lending, helped St. Louis newsmen make it from one payday to the next, charged them interest at rates upwards of 5% a week; of uremic poisoning; in St. Louis. Young Sammy engineered a steady $2.50-a-week retainer from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch after he spotted Founder Joseph Pulitzer on the street, pretended not to know who he was, followed him for blocks trying to sell him a copy of the Post-Dispatch. Later, in his banking days, he was ready 24 hours a day to back...
...Payday. When the integration movement started, it was mainly inspired and organized by the army, whose leaders recognized that associating Moslems and Frenchmen would give the insurrection a strength it could never achieve if it were based solely on exasperation with the politicians in Paris. Military trucks and buses were commandeered to bring fellahin in from their farms, and the army saw to it that Moslem demonstrators did not lose a day's pay. The Moslem stevedores from the Algiers docks had good reason to join in, too. Since maritime traffic with France had been cut off. they were...
TGIF: lit., Thank God it's Friday, i.e., payday, end of the work week...
Boom Psychology. Such real accomplishments of 1957 were obscured by the fact that the U.S. suffered from an advanced case of boom psychology. Prosperity had become such a part of U.S. life that many Americans expected new records as regularly as payday. Any temporary downturn brought cries of disaster...