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...more than one producer alone can afford. Thus a distiller estimated that he would have to employ a minimum of 75 salesmen and invest $500,000 to $1,000,000 to service the more than 32,000 liquor licensees in metropolitan New York alone, a job that an independent distributor was already doing for him much more cheaply. Nevertheless, on a few big ticket items, such as automobiles, big savings can be made by bypassing the jobber and wholesaler...
Occupants of the Jaguar stalled on a lonely Yorkshire road were grateful to the wiry, gray-haired farmer who had quickly repaired their broken distributor. Their thanks turned to amazement when they recognized the impromptu mechanic as England's foremost philosopher of art. For one of the paradoxes about Sir Herbert Read is his combination of a vast knowledge of practical things and the intellectual aloofness of the creative artist...
...known nothing about the killing, and Hall, with an alien twist of chivalry, backed her up. But Mrs. Heady's fingerprints were plastered all over a special-delivery ransom note sent the afternoon of the kidnaping to Bobby's father, Robert C. Greenlease, a General Motors distributor in Kansas City...
...Patrick J. Norton, 70, onetime Dubuque, Iowa newspaper distributor and father of 14, returned from Rome, celebrated his first Mass in a U.S. church as a Roman Catholic priest. Though drawn to the priesthood as a young man, Father Norton had to find a job in which he could help his needy family. After the death of his wife, and with his children grown, he entered studies for the priesthood...
Operator 25 is many people with many functions-and, obviously, many facets of ingenuity. Basically, Western Union uses Operator 25 as a commercial service. If, for instance, you want to find out the name of the local distributor of the Cant-Chu-U dog muzzle, Operator 25 can tell you. In many cities, Operator 25 is also the person to call back when you are not at home to receive a wire. In that capacity, Operator 25-or her counterpart-has become a familiar voice to many TIME correspondents...