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...since Day had been forced to contribute $800 to get the first edition published. In the 13 years since. Day's royalties totaled 40--paid in postage stamps. A sample Bartholf Street scene: ''Marie walked in and closed the door behind her. She had on her coat with gaudy blue pajamas underneath. 'Won't you have a drink?' I asked. She sat on the bed. leaning back with both hands. 'Whatever you say,' she replied...
...bear called out, "Can't we talk this over like two sober human beings?" The hunter lowered his gun. "What's to talk over?" he asked. "Well," said the bear, "what do you want to shoot me for?" "Simple," grunted the hunter, "I want a fur coat." "All I want is a good breakfast," smiled the bear. "I am sure we can get together on this." So they sat down to work out an agreement. After awhile, the bear got up-all alone. They had reached a compromise. The bear had his breakfast, and the hunter...
...turn-big, bespectacled and full-bearded, beneath a round, wide-brimmed black hat. When he turns off the highway into a community of modern Cape Cod cottages, the friend who greets him on the roadside or waves from a window might be his double-big beard, black hat, black coat and all. This is how men look in New Square...
...Roman play, Terence's Phormio, Les Fourberies is served up in the famous Italian style of the commedia dell' arte. For their sons' sake, Scapin hoodwinks two miserly fathers-one of whom, as the price of Scapin's saving his life, has offered him a coat "after I've worn it a little longer." Whether mimicking the old boys or mulcting them, whether hiding them in sacks and clouting them or-caught out-gaining their pardon by pretending to breathe his last, Scapin is never stumped. Full-bloodedly, unabashedly crude, Les Fourberies is something...
Useful Garbage. Dealer Sam Greiff, who last year bought 2,120,000 surplus Zippers for $120,000, is slowly making a killing by selling them at cut rates to jacket manufacturers, is known in the trade as the Zipper King. Greiff has just bought 400,000 Army coat fronts (stiffening material for jackets) for $15,000, is now also known as the Stiffened Coat Front King. In a world where everyone is a king of some product, the king of kings is Eddie Tarashinsky, 43, whose father pioneered the surplus business in 1904, and whose twelve New York warehouses...