"When Queenie and her friends, dressed only in bathing suits, enter Lengel's A & P to buy kipper snacks, the life of Sammy the cashier is changed forever. This program presents a dramatization of John Updikes' frequently anthologized story of irony and innocence. Updike himself comments on the story in an interview with Donald M. Murray, columnist for The Boston Globe and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer"--Container.