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...lard, learned that he had-at 65? a pound. "So," said she, "no wonder you still got it." In Kansas City, a secretary stalked indignantly from a shoe store, announcing that she would not pay $32.50 for a pair of shoes; in Los Angeles a butcher hung out a sign saying that he had refused to buy at the price the packers were asking. Chain stores with a stake in public relations refused to stock up on skyrocketing items...
Pitfalls and pratfalls were everywhere. In Detroit last week, a woman walked into a butcher shop without having got an introduction from an old customer. A butcher eyed her, scribbled a note to the boss. It read: "Who is she?" The answer: "I don't know. Starve the bitch...
Wise Wampum. Then there was barter. A car would get you an apartment and an apartment would get you a car. A butcher in Atlanta was doing well in the house construction game-meat got him nails, flooring, plumbing fixtures when other builders were shut down tight. World
...they had the Hope Diamond tied up in a pickle carton. There were other millions who got mad, concluded 1) that they were living in an immoral age; 2) that somebody was to blame; and 3) that they were rapidly going broke. But if they got ugly with the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker they ended up eating eggplant. To get the goods you had to smile, smile, smile...
...eternal strategist in the game of life and sex, always armed with . . . systems, prescriptions, stratagems, and nearly always, comically enough, fated to lose his weapons, and his plans, midway in the contest." He needed stratagems. By his own admission, he was as fat and homely as an "Italian butcher boy"; and despite his talkative, romantic arrogance and fashionable dress, he was terrified of ridicule and feminine rebuffs...