Word: grocers
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...Montedor, a former (and fictional) Portuguese colony on the west coast of Africa, has decided it no longer requires his services to oversee the refueling and supplying of passing ships. Grey does not place particular value on his job, the running of "a sort of gas station cum grocer's shop." But he will miss Bom Porto, the seedy, seductive capital of his adopted country, and his mistress Vera, a black woman of commanding girth and friendliness. Leaving her bed on one of the final mornings before his exile home, "George felt posthumous...
After it was further stipulated that the bad golfers be good sports, the best or the worst of the few remaining prospects were deemed to be Illinois Restaurant Owner Jack Pulford, 48; Colorado Stockbroker Joel Mosser, 45; Texas Trial Lawyer Kelly Ireland, 42; and Pennsylvania Grocer Angelo Spagnolo, 31. "I took up golf because my bowling was so bad," Spagnolo explained, "though I didn't lose that many bowling balls." Given the blessing of PGA Commissioner Deane Beman, a man with an inclination to smile, the foursome was brought to the Tournament Players Club in Ponte Vedra, Fla., essentially...
...perhaps two last opportunities to show the onetime Dr. Noah Drake of General Hospital with his pants down, he casually apologizes and offers to pay for everything. "Insurance," he says, "my agent handles that," as he races off with the vegetable stand hooked alongside as an Italian grocer curses him out. Jamie, cool as ever, mouths. "You're beautiful...
Shops closed quickly, but the surge of motorists heading home snarled traffic. Pedestrians, some clutching children, ran or walked briskly along the streets, hurried on by the distant sounds of gunfire. "They are going to start again," complained a grocer as he pulled down the steel shutters in front of his store. "This was coming for some time...
...wholesale grocer and a newspaper prepared last week to operate the first commercial television service in the U. S. Edward G. McDougall of Libby McNeill & Libby, food firm, has long been a television enthusiast. Like other television amateurs he has been impatient because the country's 26 experimental stations have not reached a large public because amateurs have had difficulty in buying proper receiving sets. He consulted William S. Hedges, president of the Chicago Daily News radio station WMAQ. He said that if the Daily News would construct a television broadcasting station, Libby McNeill & Libby would...