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Rosy has been photographing ships since he was a twelve-year-old on Manhattan's Lower East Side. With five other boys, he raised $1.25 to buy a Premo 4-by-5 camera from a pawnshop. When it came his turn to use it, he took a picture of a square-rigger moored off Manhattan's South Street. The shot won $5 in a photo contest, and when Rosy quit day school a year later to help support his family, he turned naturally to photography. He became a hustling freelancer who got a beat on the Baltimore fire...
Died. William Rooe Simpson, 60, last of five generations of William Simpsons who operated (from 1822 to 1937) an elegant pawnshop on New York's Lower East Side, blithe lender of money against such collateral as the Hope diamond, a Stradivarius, Titian paintings, 15th century manuscripts and pornographic watches, subject of lively reminiscences (Hockshop); of a heart attack; in Brownsville, Texas...
...professor tells it. he was lolling on the beach at São Sebastião last summer after tidying up a messy inheritance case when suddenly a 60-ft. saucer appeared before him. The disk was about 18 ft. high, and rested on a pawnshop-type landing gear of three balls. Two 6-ft.-tall men got out of the saucer, and Guimaraes tried small talk in English, French. Spanish and Italian, but got no answer. Then the strangers started to transmit on the professor's wave length. "They were communicating with me telepathically," he explains...
Last week, in a Page One Houston Post story that got to the commercial core of the matter, Reporter John Davis, 35, wrote that "there is absolutely no control over pistol sales."* Reported Davis: "In a shopping tour of gunshops and pawnshops, one thing was apparent: all you need to buy a $29.50 pistol in Houston is $29.50." Backing up his story, the Post ran a three-column cut of a .32-cal. Harrington & Richardson revolver bought by Davis-and a pawnshop's receipt for $29.50. Newsman Davis was not even asked for identification, despite a seldom-enforced, awkwardly...
...price line. Others have agreed on a $4.98 "suggested" price. Manhattan's Sam Goody's, the major record discount house, continued to discount the "suggestions," advertised classical LPs for as much as 29% off. Billboard reported one significant change "deep [in] the country's economy": the pawnshop value has dropped from $1.25 to $1 a disk...