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...happy gouache of his village. The other top prize went to a six-year-old French boy, Alain Cardot (4-to-11 class) for a spirited splash of workmen clambering over a half-built house. Alain was in seventh heaven. He lives in a cramped Paris tenement with his father, who is a pensioned French Resistance veteran, his mother and a sister. Said Alain: "Now, mama, I will buy you a bigger house...
With Ste. Cunegonde as their patron, the Grey Nuns founded an asylum in Montreal's St. Henri tenement quarter in 1895. The grim, grey stone building was a haven for orphans and old people. The aged, living out their days on $25-a-month government pension checks, were lodged in bare upstairs rooms in the western side of the building; the children lived in the east wing...
...Italian wartime setting, the movie develops a tender, hesitant romance between Teresa and an immature G.I. (Newcomer John Ericson), who has folded up with battle fatigue after his first taste of combat. When he recovers, they marry; until she can join him, he goes home to a tenement flat and his old dependence on his mother (well played by Patricia Collinge...
Pots of Pasta. Like the Jeep, Libbey-Owens-Ford glass and Toledo Scales, Mike Di Salle is a made-in-Toledo product. He was born in a tenement in Manhattan's Little Italy, but when he was three his parents, Anthony and Assunda, moved to Toledo. In those days, the Di Salle family (expanded by three more sons and three daughters after Mike) lived the skimpy life of a factory worker's family. Papa Di Salle made wine in the cellar, fixed the kids' shoes and cut their hair; mama perspired over steaming washtub-size pots...
...column, and transformed it. When a Camden commuter complained about having to pay an extra 3? for a transfer on Philadelphia's transit system Selby investigated. He found, to the transit company's amazement, that its cashiers were systematically overcharging everyone. When other readers complained about tenement "fire traps," Selby checked into the city ordinances, and soon landlords of 113 buildings were hauled up for violations. From then on, tips flooded in and Columnist Selby became Philadelphia's Mr. Fixit...