Word: maccaferri
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Those who have struck it rich have sold everything from radioactive snails to massage chairs. Mario Maccaferri, for instance, sells ukuleles. From the nadir of his career when he had to pawn his wife's jewels and was $500,000 in debt, he has developed an enterprise which manufactures 3500 ukes daily along with 500,000 clothespins, 129,000 tiles, 5000 reeds and 200 plastic guitars. The editors' character revelations, which are bound up with statistics, are usually more fascinating than the inventories. Though the Maccaferris like strumming a ukulele "the music that gives him and his wife most pleasure...
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