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Show Insatiable. George A. Birmingham (Canon Han-nay), Han-nay), the versatile Irish clergyman, playwright and novelist, was talking tl a New York reporter about the American Ameri-can business man. "I'll tell you a story," he said, I "which hits off the American business man well. "A wife, still young, turned from the window of her sumptuous nine teenth-story apartment and said to her husband: " 'George, ten years ago you promised prom-ised me that when you made a million you'd retire from business, and then we'd travel and enjoy life.' "Here she began to cry. "'You've got your million now!' she sobbed. 'Why do you still keep on working?' "George, as he hurried into his overcoat, over-coat, growled: " 'Ah, that's just like you never satisfied!' " |