When Frangois Mansard, the King's architect, appeared with his bill, it was a shock even to openhanded Louis.
He is equally openhanded with his employees, pays them the highest factory wages in the Far East, knows as many as 2,000 by name.
The Last Hurrah (John Ford; Columbia) is based on Edwin O'Connor's 1956 bestseller about the bad old days when political machines were run on blarney, graft, openhanded charity .