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Franco Mele, one of Rome's leading night club pianists, was struck to the core by the persuasive lilt of Burrier's song, and when $35 and a carton of American cigarettes was added to the call of the muse, he made a 9 piece arrangement of "Lost Without...
...this point the commodity is hawked up and down the aisles, with moderate success. Then cones the piece de resistance. A small yellow box is held up. "This carton I have here contains a new product of the Toe-Main Company, never before put on the market. Nossir, folks, you can't get this on the outside. Of course the candy alone is worth the fifty cents we are asking; but, in addition as a special introductory offer, the Toe-Main Company has placed a generous gift in each and every box. They include: a Remington electric shaver, a twelve...
...Telfair. He made the mistake of telling someone that he was from an Atlanta paper. County officials ducked him, or gave him vague answers. Disheartened, he returned to Atlanta without a story. Then he began digging in the State Secretary's office. In the bottom of a carton full of election-return envelopes, he came across the list of voters from Helena precinct in Telfair. The list looked fishy: the last 34 names were all in alphabetical order, from A through K. Goodwin reasoned that people just don't arrive at the polls in alphabetical order. He went...
...Austria, a year ago, a carton of cigarets had been worth $100, and comfortable Vienna apartments had rented for two packs a month. A carton was still worth $15. But last week the Austrian Government had the schilling so well under control that real money was driving out cigaret currency. Americans in Austria still use cigarets as their standard tips...
Stummel Snipers. In Germany, the cigaret had opened new vistas of financiering for both victor and vanquished. For a few cartons Americans could furnish their apartments, buy exquisite furs and Leica cameras. German workers found it more profitable to take their daily pay in a handful of cigarets than a fistful of marks. But at $140 a carton, no German could afford to smoke his cigarets. Instead, he sniped stummels (butts), which were valued from 3? upwards, depending on length...