Sudden Violence

MANNERS & MORALS

The happy dollars (less taxes) fell like the indiscriminate rain:

A young Long Island bachelor named Kermit Rorkmill walked under 100,000 of them and immediately 15 girls called him up--including a few who had passed up his engagement ring. "I didn't know girls were like that," he said.

Another $100,000 fell between two plump divorcees named Mary Markovich and Anna Osojnak while they labored in a Manhattan automat. Straightway, they began to weep and dream of freedom and fur coats.

In New Jersey, part-time Counterman Peter Chenes started violently when $20,000 hit him. "I refuse to get excited," he declared. "But if a guy asks for a cheeseburger, and I feel like giving him a hamburger, he gets hamburger."

Bartender William Damrau, of nearby Teaneck, just pondered his business life ("All a bartender gets is headaches"), his home life ("My wife squawked bloody murder"), and his $40,000 with the same triumphant grin.

Across the Hudson, in The Bronx, another bartender named Alfred Lagan searched his twelve-year-old daughter's round eyes and read a $20,000 message which he decoded thus: "O.K., papa, it's yours for the family [of nine], to do what you think you should." Elsewhere in the U.S., some 200 citizens shook, stomped, cried or set 'em up with sudden violence.

After a famine of six years, the Irish Sweepstakes were back.

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