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Noah Had Three Sons. In 1880 young Anton was 20 and all but the sole support of a threadbare clan of eight. His grocer father was too broke to keep his family in staples. His two older brothers were swaggering Moscow bohemians. No prig himself, Anton can confess: "I was so drunk all the time that I took bottles for girls, and girls for bottles...
...afoul of one of Britain's thriving, all-powerful monopolistic "price rings." In East Devon, when one of 60 bakers refused to go along and raise his bread price by a halfpenny, the others ganged up, threatened to have him put out of business. To a Birmingham grocer who cut the margarine price for old age pensioners and another in Cheshire who did the same with tea, went letters from wholesalers warning them to stop, else they would get no more supplies...
Battle Tested. In Salt Lake City, Grocer Sam Shortino hired a relief clerk so that he could attend a meeting of the Butchers' and Grocers' Association, where he listened attentively as police warned of the danger of keeping loaded guns in stores, returned to find that his substitute had routed two robbers by firing at them with the pistol Shortino always kept in his store...
...Parting Guests. In Wichita, Kans., after being robbed by two bandits ol $1,500 and forced to carry a stolen bag of' groceries to their car, Grocer Dale Steen was forced at gunpoint to borrow a customer's car, push the getaway car a quarter of a mile to get it started...
...repute. Shortly before or after her husband's arrival, Liliana Sotgiu would appear on foot. The cops put 110 agents on the case, some of them elaborately disguised. They discovered that Sotgiu, the Communist moralizer, was causing his wife to have sexual relations with an 18-year-old grocer's son named Sergio Rossi, while Sotgiu and others looked on. The police obtained a full confession from young Sergio Rossi, and learned there had been a passionate correspondence between Lim and Liliana. Other episodes involved whips, and Sotgiu was not merely a spectator, but had several young partners...