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Shanks' Mare. In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, during a week-long bus strike, a cobbler reported a 400% jump in business...
...Laugh. There were other matters to preoccupy the delegates. Correspondents reported the sudden popularity of the "Champagne Cobbler" (½ jigger syrup, ½ jigger lemon extract, 1 jigger curaçao, 1 jigger cognac, 1 chunk of pineapple, add champagne to taste, serve chilled. Price: $6.60). Even Molotov showed signs of gaiety. One evening, when movies were being shown at the Aero Club, he took special interest in a Russian animated cartoon involving the capers of three big bears. He was observed in convulsions of laughter and clutching his paunch when the biggest bear managed to outwit ths whole menagerie...
Grace Coolidge, relict of the 29th President, kept a dinner engagement at the home of a Northampton, Mass, cobbler. As she presented pins to a class of nurses' aides, she had encountered a girl with an Italian name, promptly inquired whether the girl could cook spaghetti, soon got an invitation from the girl's parents. Mrs. Coolidge appeared at the Sam Borrelli home in good time, departed 4½ hours later. "She ate slowly," reported Cobbler Borrelli...
...Born (1879) in Gori, Georgia, Stalin was the son of an illiterate, hard-drinking peasant turned cobbler...
...present book is an autobiographical fragment in the same vein. The Blue Boy of the title is Giono himself. His father runs a little cobbler shop. His mother operates a small home laundry. Through neighbors he learns to distinguish Bach from Mozart, Scarlatti from Rameau. A strange, dark visitor to his father's shop gives him Hesiod, Homer and the Bible to read...