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During the Holy Years of the Middle Ages (notably 1300 and 1350), two deacons are said to have been stationed permanently by the altar rails of St. Peter's in Rome, armed with rakes to scrape up the gold, silver and precious stones which pilgrims threw upon the altar steps. Then, as soon as the pilgrims' spiritual obligations had been taken care of, the Roman citizenry joined gleefully in the ancient custom of taking the pilgrims to the cleaners. In those days, hawkers sold enough "pieces of the True Cross" to build a small village...
...Chest. That was hardly the kind of assurance Seattle was hoping for. At week's end the city's businessmen, politicos and labor leaders were trying to scrape up a $100,000 war chest in a furious campaign to keep Boeing alive in Seattle. The Aeronautical Mechanics Union Local 751 (which struck Boeing last year) was in the midst of a $25,000 advertising campaign; one ad sarcastically suggested that the Grand Coulee Dam, the Bremerton Navy Yard and the Hanford Atomic Works be moved to the Midwest too. Cried one Seattle businessman: "He just tossed...
...sniped consistently at the tottering Nationalist regime, babbled confidently over the prospects of Communist rule. Now, Gould's Chinese workers were demanding wages for July despite the fact that Gould had stopped publishing in June. After a three-day lock-in, Gould finally gave up; he would scrape up the money somewhere...
Take One False Step (Universal-International) features William Powell climbing in & out of a highly unlikely scrape. As a distinguished educator in search of a university endowment, Powell appears hardly bright enough to run a class in finger-painting. Though happily married, he accepts a date with a blonde barfly
Advance word on the combination crew is slim since it is untested in combat, but the general superiority of local oarsmen make it likely that Bolles can scrape together eight spare men with less trouble than Yale's Alan Walz...