Word: bargainers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then one morning, Dr. Itten spotted a newspaper notice of the death of Titus Kammerer, host to Nikolai Lenin during his exile in Switzerland. Hastening to the bereaved home, Itten struck a bargain with Kammerer's son for a tea glass, a strainer and two butter knives, the only mementos left behind by Russia's revolutionary deity. Itten completed the deal just as a Soviet delegation drove...
Manager Ralph Black of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra needed a gimmick to back up his theory that most people simply do not know a good bargain in music when they see one. After all, he thought, $7.20 for a student's season ticket to his orchestra's concerts was really dirt cheap. With the help of a slide rule, stop watch and timing book, Manager Black last week worked out his gimmick...
...early political career came in 1716. In this year the choice for governor of Massachusetts fell between two men--Shute and Burgess. By bribing Burgess $1000 to leave the race, Belcher won the commission for his friend Shute and gained a certain notoriety for himself in the bargain. Shute, in turn, grew tired of office quickly and finagled the honor for Belcher. So Jonathon Belcher, future saviour of Princeton, became Governor of Massachusetts in 1729. His reign was highlighted by an attempt to shake down the Massachusetts General Court for a higher salary by invoking the wrath of the King...
...CRIMSON learned of the escapade yesterday morning, when some of the kidnappers called CRIMSON President William M. Simmons '52. Later, before Ratner had returned, the men called again and tried to bargain with Simmons for his return...
...such lovely joy As sudden sparks of beauty in a verse . . . And yet, your hair dusks with its strands the page, Until I'd leave the book to kiss your hair. Yet even now I'm sure that two years hence I'd curse the bitter bargain of a fool. And leave the shallowness of well-known eyes. *A Manhattan ship news reporter (so the story goes) put the heart of the matter to Waugh: "Mr. Waugh, where's Scobie?" Said Waugh: "In hell, of course...