Word: peddler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Moran makes it hard for him to leave without a car. His salesmen are among the most anxious, aggressive and articulate in the Chicago area. They begin in low key, but they breathe harder, talk faster and bargain more shrewdly as the moment of truth approaches. Not even a peddler steps in their door without leaving his name and address, later getting a tenacious and thorough followup...
Calcutta (Lawrence Welk and Orchestra; Dot). That old peddler of "Champagne Music"-better known in the trade as "sweet and moanin'," "holy chorus" or "sweet corn"-fields his first big hit single. With no lyrics or melody of any distinction, Welk's harpsichord-accordion arrangement has a slogging beat that apparently sets the jukebox crowd vibrating. The jocks have even taken to calling Bandsman Welk "Larry...
...Okayama peddler of dried chestnuts and cereals, Kuniyoshi got his first glimpse of the U.S. through the prosperous-looking tourists who came into town. When the time came for him to be called up into the imperial army, he decided that the U.S. was where he wanted to be. His father managed to scrape together $200 for him, but Kuniyoshi was so confident about the land of opportunity that just after he landed in Seattle in 1906 he sent all but $50 back...
...hero (James Darren) starts life with prospects that are not, to put it mildly, brilliant. He is the illegitimate son of a convicted killer and B-Girl Winters, who is hooked by-and sleeping with-a dope peddler (Ricardo Montalban). He grows up on Skid Row, where his playmates are rumblebums and his self-appointed guardians are a germy old barfly (Burl Ives), a good-natured prostitute (Jeanne Cooper), a slugnutty prizefighter (Rudolph Acosta), a junk-jabbing ginmill canary (Ella Fitzgerald) and a legless newsboy (Walter Burke) who packs a pretty little...
Died. Fu Tak-iam, 67, who started as a Cantonese doughnut peddler and wound up as the gambling czar of Macao by matching yens for fantan, cricket fights (in which trained insects do battle unto death) and cusek-a type of roulette played with dice; of a heart attack; in Hong Kong. A strapping (6 ft., 200 Ibs.) brigand, Fu was ransomed in 1946 for $150,000 when captors sent a slice of his right ear to relatives, but seven years later stalled on paying ransom for his kidnaped son until the gang proved their seriousness by slicing...