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Comparison shopping is the housewife's sole-searing equivalent of a bureaucrat's requesting sealed bids from competing contractors. But there are times when something gets lost in the translation, as Mary Scranton, 46, wife of Pennsylvania's Republican Governor, found to her sorrow when she submitted a $1,554 bill to the state for some rust-patterned draperies made for her husband's reception room by a Harrisburg decorator. "Absolutely illegal," sniffed the auditor general, a Democrat, refusing to pay on grounds that she hadn't asked for sealed bids. "A bargain...
...Bidone. Round and solemn as a barrel of holy water, a fat old bishop (Broderick Crawford) rolls ponderously out of a big black automobile and stands staring at a huddle of Italian peasants. "My children," he informs them in a sanctimonious monotone, "I bring you tidings of great sorrow and good fortune. During the last war, a man was murdered and a treasure hidden on the land you own." The peasants, quivering with avarice, scuttle off to the appointed spot and dig up the treasure: an iron casket crammed with smoldering brilliants. "Worth at least six million lire," the bishop...
Grieved by the tragic assassination of John F. Kennedy of the Class of 1940, President of the United States, the Board wishes to place in its record for future generations of the Board this expression of sorrow and affection for its former colleague...
...DEFINITIVE PIAF (Capitol; 2 LPs) consists of 22 fine performances, including La Vie en Rose and La Goualante de Pauvre Jean. Piaf celebrates the joys of love in a voice already pregnant with sorrow and then suffers gallantly the heartbreak she knew was coming. After all, "without a lover, one is nothing...
...then? Why there? Why thus, we cry, did he die? The Heavens are silent. What he was, he was: What he is fated to become Depends on us. Remembering his death, How we choose to live Will decide its meaning. When a just man dies, Lamentation and praise, Sorrow...