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...decided it would have to wait. He took $1,500 in small bills, headed for the grim and grimy sidewalks of the Bowery. He walked up to a knot of whiskery derelicts standing in the shelter of a doorway. "Merry Christmas," he said, holding out some money. "Have some dough...
...Dough. The Sun's left-handed little brother in Manhattan, PM, last week ran its first ads, in its own brave effort to pay its way. On its current small circulation (170,755), its first rate card offered no bargain. At a flat rate of 60? a line, it cost general display advertisers up to four times as much to reach a PM reader as it cost to talk to New Yorkers through the other eight dailies...
...Lake Poets. It was there that Beatrix discovered "the child's half-real, half-fantastic world of pond and ditch, stone walls and foxgloves, woods and sandy warrens"-side by side with "the crowded informal cottage gardens," the cupboards and dressers, the huge ranges with their pans of dough rising under "an old clean blanket." All these things Beatrix carried back in her mind to London, and, in her own words, "made stories to please myself, because I never grew...
...matter of percentages. You had to get up early and work both sides of the street. You had to keep your hand on the throttle and your eye on the rail. You had to make friends and influence people. You had to know Joe and make with the dough with a hey-nonny-nonny...
Another visiting journalist, France's Louis Martin-Chauffier, last week summed up the U.S.: "Good dough without yeast." Wrote he in the Paris Liberation: "American society is tough, commanded by the tough law of profit, by the even tougher law of the struggle for existence, reducing man either to a machine or to a nervous being straining simultaneously for the conquest of comfort and for self-defense...