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...there even now. I might end up there an old man some day, seein' over those boys like Professor Davis did." Best of all for Louis, "Professor" Davis taught him to read music a bit, and play, first the tambourine and drums, then the bugle, finally a battered pawnshop cornet. Unable to keep the small, smooth mouthpiece on his big lips at first, Louis filed grooves in it and mastered Home, Sweet Home...
...Pawnshop City. Today, there are less than 50,000 Red army soldiers in Rumania but, stationed at key points throughout the country, they are enough. Also, Moscow has settled about 20,000 Russian families around Constanta on the strategic Black Sea coast. Through seven huge "Sovroms" (Soviet-Rumanian combines), the Russians almost completely control transport, oil, timber, banking, and everything else they can lay their hands on, even including Rumania's tiny motion picture industry. A Rumanian proverb covers the situation: "When the Russians help us, they always take something away...
...give up a fixed quota of their crops even if the harvest is bad and they have not enough left for themselves; recently, peasants in the Banat burned their crops in protest against the system. A recent visitor described Bucharest as a "city with the air of a pawnshop." The only way the Rumanian middle class can keep alive is by slowly selling its possessions. The few men who still run their businesses actually hope for nationalization. New laws covering "economic sabotage" may land a businessman in jail for carrying out any simple deal. As one Rumanian businessman...
...Candid Mike's producer-narrator, Allen Funt, combs Manhattan street corners, hotels, doorsteps, restaurants-any spot where people meet and talk-with his tape recorder. He disguises the mike in a sling, as a hearing aid, hides it under his lapel or sets it on a pawnshop counter covered by a "for sale" sign...
...victim's words have been reeled in on the tape, Funt gently breaks the news to him, plays back the sequence, and tries to get permission to use it on the air. He nearly always succeeds; so far, only three people (all of them in an Eighth Avenue pawnshop) have refused. Once in a while the victim is resentful. By last week, Funt had narrowly avoided a couple of fights but was still unbruised...