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...definitely off-"for the present." Bubbling Aly called for champagne "for everyone on a day like today." "There is none cold," a servant whispered. Aly waved reporters to a tray of aperitifs, turned to Rita and said: "Come, they want to photograph us on the balcony like Romeo and Juliet...
...house, Truman told aides later, is an expression he has used since boyhood, but he does not remember the source. It is a colloquialism, at least as old as Romeo and Juliet, Act III, Scene V. Capulet, Juliet's father, is angry because she refused to marry his choice, Paris. He tells her: "Graze where you will, you shall not house with...
Bill Veeck, new president of the St. Louis Browns, and Fred Saigh, president of the Cardinals (who have hardly spoken to each other for the past six months), called off their feud long enough to appear as Romeo and Juliet on a local radio show for the Red Cross blood bank. Picked by the studio audience, Veeck played Romeo to Saigh's Juliet. Said Veeck later-"I congratulated him. He made a dignified Juliet. It was purely platonic...
...Juliet's balcony scene...
Then Tassoula's father and friends set out after his daughter; the Greek government sent troops to prevent the outbreak of civil war and to bring Romeo & Juliet back. At that point, Constantine gave himself up. He put his bride in the care of the Archbishop of Athens, and was sentenced to two years in jail for carrying arms. Last week, after serving 13 months, Constantine was released. Patient Tassoula, all packed and ready for the delayed honeymoon, beamed with joy and relief: the jailers had let Constantine keep his mustache...