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...years ago Little Joe was just a grocery clerk. He made his bullfighting debut as a novillero (apprentice) last August. Said the dean of Mexico City's bullfight critics, "Here is the novillero of the season-of all seasons." After his first kill, the crowds shouted that he should be given both ears and the tail-the highest mark of approval...
Butcher shops felt the full weight of buyers' disdain. Prices fell rapidly in most cities. When the price of a pair of pajamas was quoted at $5.75, a San Antonio bank clerk snapped: "I'll keep on sleeping in old shirts instead." Boston's R. H. White department store, which for years could not keep any bedroom furniture on its floor, got a carload at the beginning of the week, still had almost all of it at week...
...courtesy to customers (a wartime casualty in England as in the U.S.), Retailer Fred Trippett of Hull instituted a novel incentive plan last week. Trippett handed out envelopes containing ten shilling notes to customers chosen at random, asked them to give them to the "most helpful and considerate" clerk. Said Trippett of his plan: "I have 25 girls on my staff and it is certainly keeping-them on their toes...
...Figures. Burroughs was founded by an Auburn, N. Y. bank clerk, William Seward Burroughs, who got tired of adding up long columns of figures. In 1881, he went to St. Louis, and with $700 borrowed from a dry-goods merchant he tried to invent an adding machine...
Urbanity Plus. Frank Case was a clerk at the Algonquin when it opened in 1902, as a West 44th Street neighbor of Sherry's and Delmonico's. Soon he was its manager, then its owner. As such, he had no use for the social register or big bank accounts. They made for dull company. He was determined "to get the Arts." He got what he wanted by providing the Arts with good food, reasonable bills which didn't always have to be paid promptly, and with his own unfailing urbanity...