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...drawings was the artist's signature visible, and the gallery refused to say who had drawn what. The bargain show was just another way for the gallery's businessman-founder, Hugh Stix, 48, a former Harvard Fine Arts honor graduate and now a full-time wholesale grocer, to underline his credo: "Somebody has to like art for what it is, not just for the artist's name...
James Cook was a farmer's son, the sixth or seventh of nine-his mother was never quite sure which. A grocer's apprentice as a boy, he later manned coal barges, enlisted in the Royal Navy and worked his way up, most notably as a cartographer in Wolfe's campaign up the St. Lawrence against Quebec. Cook was 40 when he was chosen to skipper the Endeavour. By London's top scientists, the Fellows of the Royal Society and the Admiralty, he was handed a twofold mission: 1) he was to sail to Tahiti...
...than $155 million), made its store managers meet individual sales quotas that represented from 25% to 50% of the total retail grocery business in some areas. Safeway denied any antitrust violations, said its policy is to "meet competitors' prices and not lead them downward." Meanwhile, 157 Abilene area grocers have filed a $166,000 civil suit against Safeway for losses incurred during a price war in which one independent grocer was forced out of business...
...most celebrated of Neal's predecessors was Joe Hillstrom, writer of ballads and doughty organizer of Utah copper unions for the I.W.W. before World War I. Joe Hillstrom was convicted of murdering a grocer in a holdup, but the comrades of his union insisted to the end that he was framed...
...averages $250 to $350 a piece, and finally also began selling to Satevepost and other slick magazines. Says he: "I like every thing about freelancing, with the exception of the lack of security. Sometimes it's four to six months between checks, and that creates problems for my grocer and everybody else." One writer who no longer worries about the grocery bills is Frank J. Taylor, 60, dean of the freelancers. Although Tay lor now considers himself "in semiretirement," he still writes ten or twelve articles a year for Satevepost and Reader's Digest...