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...Fred MacMurray), was entirely different. He was the kind of lawyer who would volunteer to defend a truckman against the charge of stealing hams-but refuse when he found out his fee was to be paid from the sale of the hams. Helen Bartlett lied to the butcher, the grocer, the man from the typewriter company. The fiction she wrote on the typewriter didn't sell, so she lied to Kenneth about a secretarial job she had made up her mind to take. It was with a broker who was going to pay her a large salary for little...
...Freed. Grocer George W. Norris of Alva, Okla., from the Lincoln, Neb., city jail, after having served three months for perjury in connection with his attempt, in 1930, to enter the Nebraska Republican primary elections as Senatorial candidate opposed to venerable Senator George W. Norris (TIME, April 5, et ante); in Lincoln...
...theatre played women, so the boys of the Yiddish theatre have for centuries played old men. Muni made his stage debut at the age of eleven in Cleveland, as an old man in a sketch called Two Corpses at Breakfast. He took to the stage as naturally as a grocer's son takes to the counter. But his parents had other ambitions for him. To the Jews of that generation any kind of musician was higher in the social scale than an actor. Paul was to be a violinist. He took his lessons dutifully but one day went...
...Bull Moore was above any kind of mix-up that concerned a girl, his dare-deviltry sometimes brought him to the edge of other kinds of trouble. In 1927, a grocer accused of selling liquor complained that a young bully posing as a policeman had walked in and taken $50, promising to have the accusation quashed. Bull Moore was tried for this offense. He got a six-month sentence which the judge suspended...
...other supermarkets, little money is wasted on fixtures and decorations. Operating with a high turnover, Trading Post is supplied by Western Grocer, an Iowa wholesaler with Chicago offices and warehouse on the third floor of the Trading Post building. Whenever stocks get low, a telephone call will bring fresh goods tumbling down within three minutes...