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...rolled into one. In Guatemala City, market women and their kids and kinfolk make up 10% of the capital's 400,000 population; Lima's markets count 7,000 women; and in the island nation of Jamaica, nearly all the food-distribution system revolves around "higgler" women...
Died. A. E. (for Alfred Edgar) Coppard, 79, who gave up clerking at 41 to concentrate on writing, became known as the author of vivid, atmospheric short stories (The Higgler, Adam and Eve .and Pinch Me); of a stroke; in London. Novelist Ford Madox Ford's evaluation: "Almost the first English prose writer to get into English prose the peculiar quality of English lyric poetry...
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