Word: bargainer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...museums by day ("I feel a rapport with Jackson Pollock," he says). Last year he got by on $500. Living in one room cluttered with stacks of tape and three tape recorders, he worked on a book explaining his music and practiced on the violin-a $15 pawnshop bargain -"until somebody started knocking on the walls...
...addition, a subway running between the building and the Capitol, as well as renovations and additions in the vicinity, will hike the total cost to something like $122 million. But according to Patman's calculations, it was "a bargain of the first magnitude"-$36.56 per sq. ft. as against $90.94 for the 1935 Supreme Court Building...
...collectors would consider the Canadian coin sets a bargain even at a higher price. The value of a 1965 set is expected to jump to $8 as soon as it hits the open market. And as a speculative investment, coins can hardly be beat: a 1950 U.S. proof set, which originally cost $2.10, is now worth a cool...
...chief executive of a 49-store chain that serves 110 million people a year. Yet Jack Straus, at 64, enjoys none of his duties so much as that of playing the indignant consumer. A man with the saucer eyes and eager fingers of a shopper ready to seize a bargain, he moves through Macy's like an avenging angel, fulfilling the dreams of every customer by raising Cain-and making his complaints stick...
...about a year ago, a 15-year-old boy in a small town in Massachusetts smuggled a small paperback into his house on his way home from school. It was only 95c, and he had heard from his friends that it was really a bargain at that price, so he thought he would take a look at it. the only trouble was that his mother happened to find it around his room, and she called a friend to tell her about her son's shocking purchase. This friend had a cousin who knew a lot about "dirty books," the mother...