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...early summer of warm rains, cold drizzles and sticky fogs. In the Catskills it rained and rained. The important sweet corn crop was badly damaged; weeds grew high in fields too. gooey to cultivate. Farmers threatened to shoot Howell; so did resort owners. "Look," said Julius Slutsky, a proprietor of the upstate Nevele Hotel (which tried to sue New York City), "our guests come from New York City. They don't know much about the country. They say, 'They got rainmakers up there, so why should we go up to Slutsky...
...American looking! I was astonished to find that many Swiss thought them beautiful. At first they regarded the jukebox with curiosity . . . [then] they realized that the tone was better than anything they had heard. Believe it or not, some people now bring their own records to cafes, ask the proprietor to put them in the jukebox, and they pay to have their own records played." Regretfully De Stoutz added: "About 10% of the cafe customers complain. They call [the jukeboxes] ugly and tasteless, and say they injure the beauty of our country...
...Misguided. Soon after he became a minister, a call came to Barcelona-to the largest Protestant church (300 members) in Catalonia. Benito went to his boss at the bar and explained why he wanted to leave. When he discovered that he had been harboring a fledgling Protestant pastor, the proprietor was horror-struck. "I am a ruined man!" he groaned.* When word got around, the president of the Parliament thundered: "Where is this man? I want to slap his face. Shame on you for having sheltered...
...proprietor of the store, a likable young man named Dominic ("Mickey") Calarco, didn't notice the pistol at first. He looked up, smiled, and asked, "May I help you?" Said Tommy: "Yeah, gimme your money. This is a holdup...
...when Calarco started around the counter with the money the boy suddenly fired the .22. The bullet missed the proprietor, noisily smashed a bottle of Corby's whisky on a corner shelf. The girl in the doorway ran, and the young gunman bolted after her. Calarco gave chase, caught the boy out on the street and tried to grab the pistol. It went off three times as they wrestled, and the third shot hit Calarco in the throat. Tommy Cook galloped, panting, to the car and was driven off with a screech of tires. Calarco died...