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...After moving to Chicago at 16, she was a hotel maid, laundress and baby sitter before her choir solos won her a job on a crosscountry gospel crusade. Chicago remained her home until the end. There she married and divorced twice (no children), opened a beauty parlor and a florist shop with her earnings ($100,000 a year at her peak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Moving On Up | 2/7/1972 | See Source »

Colombo has been able to account for an income of about $18,000 a year through real estate dealings; associates report that he rarely has any difficulty collecting his commissions. On a Dick Cavett television show, Colombo explained that he also owns a piece of a florist shop and of a funeral home. When the studio audience laughed at the mortuary connection, Colombo bridled. He was not trying to be funny, he said, and he did not find the matter at all amusing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Capo Who Went Public | 7/12/1971 | See Source »

...Mary Hargrove, 46, lives in Silver Spring, Md., and works as a florist's assistant in downtown Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man And Woman Of The Year: Hitting Close to Home | 1/5/1970 | See Source »

...groom escorted his bride to the familiar Tonight guest couch. Johnny, looking mighty puffed up in his tuxedo, greeted them from behind his accustomed desk. There followed a commercial and a champagne toast (the couple drank milk and honey). Tiny serenaded his bride and read plugs for the florist who had supplied 8,000 tulips, his hairdresser, and several other generous purveyors. After sign-off, the couple held an unruly press conference in which Tiny estimated that their kiss during the ceremony had been "about our fifth," but then proceeded to buss Miss Vicki 100 more times at the behest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Puff-Up Time | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

YPSL has now obtained written agreements to not sell California grapes from all Harvard Square stores except the Brattle Street Florist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Grapes Off Menu At Cliffe, Harvard Until Strike Ends | 10/2/1968 | See Source »

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