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Under examination by defense attorney William P. Homans Jr. '41. Edelin said. "My memory is that the clocks were not functioning or may even have been removed for repair...
...quickly found; only three blocks away lived the shirt's owner, Joseph Kallinger, 38, a shoe repairman who, with his wife Elizabeth, 40, and their five children occupied a house in the working-class Kensington area of Philadelphia. On the bottom floor of the house was a shoe repair shop that Kallinger owned and operated. True, Kallinger's name was misspelled on the shirt. But that, the dry cleaner explained, was because his machine could not print more than eight letters across; dropping an / had been the solution, and he knew the shirt well...
...Truant. Kallinger took a kind of satisfaction in the notoriety that his family had received. He pinned the newspaper clippings detailing his family's woes to .the wall of his shoe repair shop, and he frequently pointed them out with pride to customers...
...cost of everything has gone up," Preston said. "The greatest single item is the cost of repair--materials as well as time," he added...
With minute accretions, Benny developed a persona that was never more than 39, intolerably stingy-he drove an old, wheezy Maxwell-and cranky beyond repair. When radio grew static he opened a 20-year feud with Fred Allen. Benny put a clothespin on his nose and mimicked Allen's nasal delivery. When Waukegan planted a tree in Benny's honor, Allen asked, "How do you expect it to live when the sap is in Hollywood?" Once when Benny was on the losing end of an exchange, he told Al len, "You wouldn't dare say that...