Word: keasler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From door to door in Atlanta last week went the Atlanta Journal's Reporter John Keasler; he was out to test the hoarding instinct of housewives. In his bag he had seven pepper grinders and at each door he solemnly told housewives that "ground black pepper will be scarce" and they better buy a grinder and grind their own. In six hours, Reporter Keasler sold his grinders and this week in the Journal he gleefully told how housewives 1) will buy anything if they think it's a bargain, and 2) pay no attention to what salesmen...
...Reporter Keasler assured one housewife that "this kit will do absolutely nothing to solve your pepper worries." To another he gravely said: "The pepper you buy in the store is nothing but undiluted, pure pepper. But this is the genuine synthetic, with absolutely every safeguard to increase the substitutes...
...such stunts, husky, 29-year-old Reporter Keasler, a war veteran who broke in on the Journal (circ. 248,791) only a year ago, has made himself the most talked-about newsman in Atlanta. As a self-made smart aleck he has not yet been shot at or even punched, but he has given Atlantans plenty of provocation...
...pairs of cheap socks and going to the goldfish counter of a five & ten and insisting on buying an elusive little fish that was hiding on the bottom of the tank (it took the girl 20 minutes to capture it). At Five Points, Atlanta's busiest intersection, Keasler and Photographer Ed Pierce, who concealed his camera, snapped the faces of male passers-by as they watched a pretty model adjust her garter-and ran the pictures in the Journal. In Atlanta's fancy cat show, Keasler entered an alley cat, made such a scene that a special class...
...surprise of Keasler-and the Journal-no Journal readers have complained about Keasler's antics even when they were the victims. Only once did Keasler make Atlantans really mad: that was last month when he posed as a hoarder, went to a chain store and piled a basket high with scarce goods. As other shoppers glared at him, Keasler feared for a while that he was finally going to get it. But all he got was a bawling out from a man who cried: "What should be scarce is people like...