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...Sainted Sisters (Paramount) are daintily tough Veronica Lake and delicious Joan Caulfield. In flight from the New York police (circa 1895), they stop off for a con girls' holiday in a little town in Maine. They hole up with Barry Fitzgerald, the solidest down-Easter this side of Galway, and get busy fleecing the yokels...
...Athens, Easter Sunday's Feast of the Resurrection was far from festive. Martial law had been proclaimed, and while church bells pealed Athenians bandied the latest rumor: next on the party list was Vice Premier Constantin Tsaldaris...
Exiled Peter of Yugoslavia, visiting the U.S. with wife Alexandra and son Alexander, attended Serbian Orthodox Easter services in Manhattan. Royalists in the congregation greeted him with the Serbians' tactful cry that fits every distinguished guest: "Zivio"-meaning simply "Long live...
...hands with red kerchiefs and robed bishops and small-town women with babies in their arms. In many churches, Mass times were shifted so that the faithful would find it easier to reach the polls when they opened at 8. Priests read the Collect for the third Sunday after Easter...
...Manhattan's Macy's, pushing a 90th anniversary sale, had a $1,000,000 day for the first time in any spring season (its daily sales have topped a million 37 other times, during the Christmas rush). But retail trade generally, reported Dun & Bradstreet, suffered a post-Easter drop of 3% to 7% from the same period last year...