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...visitors in the Lord's Prayer. Then she was ready to begin her long night's work. Striding energetically to the middle of the room, she washed her hands in a small basin, and summoned her first patient to sit on a low white hospital stool. As she passed her wavering hands over his limbs, the patient quietly slipped a $1 bill into her apron pocket...
...businessman afflicted with a crippling neuromuscular condition on which he had spent $7,000 in doctors' fees. This patient, who had driven with his wife in their '52 Buick from Santa Monica, Calif., waited all day for the privilege of sitting on Susie's little white stool. After she had passed her hands over his ailing limbs, he said he felt no improvement, but would come back, perhaps stay a week. "After all," he said, "a drowning man will grab at any kind of a straw...
...open all night. But despite their deep, egg-spattered knowledge of human eccentricity, nobody in John's had the slightest inkling that a new and glorious page in the diner's history was about to be written when William ("The Laughing Bandit") Kampi lowered himself to a stool at 3:30 a.m. one morning last week and ordered spaghetti & meat balls with tomato sauce...
...even when she let it out in the climaxes. She ranged from such a lighthearted number as Lucky To Be Me to a torchy version of Come Rain or Come Shine to a dramatic monologue about a girl who gets picked up by the man on the next bar stool; she managed to tinge them all with the air of a woman who has lived and loved...
Detective Robinson's day begins with the bad news that a patrolman has been shot the night before while trying to stop a car heist. Then a stool pigeon tells him that a well-known hood is back in town to pull a bank job. Piece by piece, evidence comes in to connect the hood with the heist. By 9 a.m. the bank in question is staked out with plain clothesmen. At 1 p.m. the visiting hood and his gang strike, as expected. After a savage gun battle, two thugs get away-without the loot...