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Only two stores still stock the grapes in the Square--Sage Market and the Brattle Florist...
...owner of the Brattle Florist said, "I don't mind the pickets. But they're not going to come in here and tell me how to run my business. I am not afraid...
...whereabouts of the cod remained unknown for over a week while evidence piled up against Harvard culprits and eventually pointed to the Lampoon. Guards told newsmen elaborate stories of a "curly haired boy" standing near the cod, holding a large, long florist's box. 'But," one guard said, "from him came the breath of something other than lilies. It was a sort of alcoholic fragrance." The alcoholic fragrance turned to a drunken stench as the city of Boston got increasingly enraged. The Post reported angrily that "the thief was intoxicated...badly in need of a shave...wore brown clothing...
Died. Frank Erickson, 72, "King of the Bookies," who for some 30 years operated a $12 million-a-year gambling business behind the front of a Manhattan florist; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. To New York's Fiorello La Guardia he was a "tinhorn punk"; but to thousands of horseplayers Erickson was the giant of U.S. gambling, handling some $33,000 a day in bets until he was convicted of illegal gambling in 1950 and tax evasion...
...flowers wilted far from florist shops; live lobsters piled up awaiting shipment from Maine. Manufacturers dependent on air shipment of electronic parts suffered production delays. Traveling salesmen and executives resorted to circuitous odysseys, chartered air taxis-or stayed home and used a phone...