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Newsday (Nassau Edition) from Hempstead, New York • 28

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Hempstead, New York
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28
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ARTJHJCHWALD Saturday Evening Post How Could You? house He had trouble cashing checks in the grocery store The gas station made some excuse why they renew his credit card He lost the election for the school board and there was even some talk that the bar association would look into his accreditation Lifelong clients took their 'busincsj elsewhere Mrs Feneker was told she was no longer needed in the car pool for the dancing classes At school the kids were merciless to the Feneker children One night Johnny Feneker came home crying his eye black said my father was a Saturday Evening Post he said it so goingto have to move from he told the family disgrace is just too much to A week later at 2 AM the 1'cnckcrs loaded up their belongings and drove out of town -They moved to a city hundreds of miles away and icsubscribca to the Saturday Evening Post under a different name But despite the fact that no one in the new town knows their terrible secret the Fcnekers still live in fear that someday somehow they will get another registered letter from the Curtis Publishing Co and they will have to move on again When dropped by the Saturday Evening Post you have no choice but to live a lie for tlie rest of your life "They mention that They say too old for the magazine and demographically must be some mistake appeal Feneker said letter said the decision of the publisher is final There even a return address on the envelope" Fender started to panic knows about told mother You were at lunch and I had to tell heavens Call her right away and tell her not to tell a soul If this gets out well be Unfortunately mother-in-law had gone to a bridge game that afternoon and as luck would have it she mentioned it to her friends while she was the dummy Before long the phones started to ring all over Hopscotch with the scandalous news seemed like such nice Mrs McMurdy said when her sister told her UI always thought something was fishy when they drove around in a 1962 Chet McCauliffc told a friend when he heard the news In a time Feneker started to feel that his secret was out No one came right out and said they knew the Saturday Evening Post had canceled his subscription but the atmosphere in the town had changed The bank refused him a loan on a new wing for his Washington The Saturday Evening Post which has been in trouble for some time has a new management One of the decisions of the management is to cancel about 2000000 of the 6000000 subscribers By putting their subscription list through a computer the Saturday Evening Post circulation people intend to need out older people' small-towners and those persons who just have the buying power of the young families who live in tlie cities and suburbs In this way the Post hopes to appeal to class advertisers and also save money on printing The idea males sense but it can also cause plenty of problems l-'encler was at his law office in Hopscotch Neb when lie received a call from his wife a registered letter here from the Curtis Publishing she said sobbing "What does it Fenclcer asked sjvs canceling our subscription to the Saturday Evening his wife cried been subscribers for 25 Fender said REPORT FROM PARIS Ad Lib Revolutionary Theater Paris Style they stopped running and a woman said to me you are young what do you think? And I started to tell her and foe driver joined in the discussion and foe other passengers and before long we stopped and just talked for 10 minutes That is Paris now and it must go Parisians used to talk to each other Life was complicated enough On the facade of the first balcony of the Odeon are small plaques commemorating tlie great French playwrights Voltaire Racine Molicrc Corneille A student said yesterday he was inspired by that as well as by foe hand-painted signs the rcvolutionaires have pasted on the fire screen that has been lowered One tlie biggest says ex-Odeon is a free tribune the revolution is not just for foe committees but for Another says takes power at foe ex-theater of The scene at the Odeon is in all respects remarkable Outsiders plunging in for the first time are overwhelmed by a sense of cfeja vu it is as foe French Revolution the other one must have been with the masses in the baV conies of some tribunes some courts some assemblies some amphitheaters some Odcons shouting their demands And didn't they get answers like the one foe young professor sent to the five-franc scats yesterday must nave concrete aims the people can accept in the 30 and some were professors some were shopkeepers and a few laborers The point seemed to be to let everyone have his say: a student leaning on foe stage acted more or less as moderator but his was a benevolent reign He even allowed a dearly conservative young man red of face to stand and shout cannot replace the Caullist government with any other I am afraid that civil war has been seeded here I am afraid that paratroops will march on Paris in a few days if we do not It is important to know that this young man hopelessly out of step (he should be getting off on his left foot not his right) was shouted at but was allowed to finish And foe Trolskyite dark glasses gray hair symmetrical hand gestures thundered we want to make revolution it is our The students say they will continue to occupy the Odeon until until an who knows say the students These are glorious dangerous days and they were the ones who started the fuss which captured the fancy of an underpaid and unde rmotiva ted working class which grabbed the plants and caused the chaos These are high days wide days and one student at the Odeon was saying yesterday that he was thrilled that Frenchmen are now talking to each other Talking to each other He said was on a bus before By John Van Doom Newsday Staff Correspondent Paris Easily the best theater in Europe today is the show bom of revolt playing at the Odeon in the Latin Quarter of the French capital It runs 24 hours a day every day and the house is always full of people who picked their way through the abandoned cars and the excited discussion groups and the spreading garbage It costs nothing to get in but that mean everyone can The students took the Odeon over in the backwash of the riotingwhich for better or worse has changed Fiance forever They are determined not to harm the theater and they have created a precise system for counting the house and shutting off entry when the seats are filled What happens at the Odeon today is that people talk Leaning down from foe first balcony (there are three all gilt-edged and red velvet and reaching imploringly toward the stage) a Trotskvite was saying vestnday we make errors the next few days we shall alienate people and a Fascist government will take From the orchestra an intense young man of indeterminate commitment said must have more profound changes than the mere replacement of one regime with another Then another spoke and another Some were students which in France means between the ages of about 25 and HARVEY ARONSON New Outlets May Revive Lagging Lottery Sometimes someone comes in from a large concern like and buys 300 at a time I tell yet if it helps business But I think people like the idea of being able to buy lottery tickets at night or on Saturday? Of course not everybody is ecstatic about turning' his place of business into a casino sell about 100 a said a Floral Park stationer a lot of extra bookkeeping and not worth foe five cents a ticket (the commission) We just have them as a service If somebody comes in and wants them we have Nevertheless more and more outlets are doing' it This was inherent in a report from the A Beck shoe store in Hempstead are pretty said a spokesman and then he added: was worth all the trouble until last week when other stores got the tickets We were foe first around here to have The belief here is that the state still doing enough to make foe lottery as big as bingo An exbookmaker named Col Kelly who was asked for his opinion suggested in this space some months ago that more outlets should be utilized heartening to see that foe state has taken his advice but why not go all the way? The obvious outlet for lottery tickets the local bookie parlor where the gamblers are You could call it a bet-in some other places are still waiting for ticket boxes and other equipment And the lottery people are hedging their bets when it comes to predicting sales boom Or as one spokesman who taking any chances put it still a little premature to tell However a spot check of some of Long Island's 897 new gambling centers indicates that the operation is off to a fast start For example at foe Genovese drug store in East Norfoport manager Joseph Raineri reports about 100 sales a day Genovese sells the tickets at the checkout counter which puts them right up there with Matchbox cars and flashlight batteries lot of elderly people buy the said Raineri buy five or 10 at a time Having foe tickets involves a lot of extra bookkeeping but I think it helps business in foe long run Some people have come in to duv tickets who might not have come to foe store otherwise And some people come in for tickets and bay other things while here I buy one a At May's in Massapequa foe tickets are not necessarily moving like miniskirts but moving sold about 4000 in said office manager Arthur Kletzel sells the tickets from a credit office on the second floor shoppers buy them said Kletzel men too The men come in on Saturday and at night still too early to tell whether it win save foe state lottery or bring home the bacon for public education but the sale of tickets seems to be catching on in shoe stores drug stores department stores and sundry other establishments hitherto uninvolved in gambling This action amid foe Capezios and gaming amid the deodorants is foe focal point of the effort to resuscitate the lottery by establishing new outlets to replace hanks The banks were outlawed as sales places by Congress and the result was a 19 per cent drop in ticket buying last month If there are to be any May heroics they will have to be performed by foe new outlets which include such popular hangouts as gas stations supermarkets smoke shops newsstands stationery stores and barber shops In short foe sort of places that have traditionally been used for foe dissemination of numbers slips Many of the new outlets that applied for licenses last month are just beginning to actually sell tickets and 28 Nowaday.

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