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...people of Bloomingdale, Ala., Lilian Sayre must have seemed a lucky girl. Conventionally pretty and completely ordinary, she had come from a farm village in the middle of the state and married handsome Carl Sayre. He was only a grocer, to be sure, but by Bloomingdale standards he was well-to-do and a good catch. Their failure in marriage began on the wedding night, when Carl got raving drunk. Lilian had neither the intelligence nor the maturity to try to understand Carl, a decent enough fellow when he was not drinking. As time went on, he came to think...
...argument centered around whether Sturgess, a grocer, should have to pay taxes for years when his books were cleared by agents. Sturgess had changed his bookkeeping system in the meantime. The decision handed down was that a man was responsible for his books at all times, and that an outmoded way of keeping them was irrelevant...
...Tomatoes. At the age of 15, Tillie, who was born Myrtle Ehrlich, was married to a Brooklyn wholesale grocer who imported the firm-bodied, pear-shaped Italian tomatoes which make the best spaghetti sauce. She later divorced the grocer, but she remembered the tomatoes, even when she went to work selling securities in Wall Street. In 1934, when a tariff sent the price of Italian tomatoes skyrocketing, Tillie began to think of growing them in the U.S. Everybody told her it was impossible ("the soil isn't right"). But on a trip to Italy, she got seed and talked...
Segregation. In Palmyra, Neb., Grocer A. H. Weatherhogger printed "Democrat" on one of the benches in front of his store, "Republican" on the other...
...reporters straight: it was only children under 14 who turned into cats in Sakelta. Soon after the children are tucked in each night (said the villagers), the youngsters become rigid, their breathing stops, and their souls take the shape of cats roaming the streets. "I called one day on Grocer Ahmed Khawaga and asked for some free candy," recalled one kiddy-cat named Ibrahim El Tayeb, "but he refused me. So that night I sneaked into his home as a cat and ate up his wedding dinner." Egyptian psychologists said it was all a hallucination. Some of the villagers, however...