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When Naftuli Ringel arrived in the U.S. in 1907, the best available job was shohet -- ritual slaughterer. But the immigrant was too sensitive for throat cutting, and he chose to become a peddler. Assimilation works wonders in America; 84 years later, his grandson has developed an unerring instinct for the jugular vein...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Perverse Brilliance | 6/24/1991 | See Source »

Even reasonably intelligent people, such as Washington influence peddler Clark Clifford, no longer trouble themselves to write their own "memoirs...

Author: By John L. Larew, | Title: Author! Author! Wherefore Art Thou, Author? | 6/6/1991 | See Source »

...group cried, "The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire. We don't want excuses, we want faculty hired," a pennant peddler standing near where the demonstrators had stopped expressed bitterness about the protest to one of her colleagues...

Author: By Joshua A. Gerstein, | Title: Protesters Demanding Afro-Am Hiring March to The Stadium, Demonstrate at Football Game | 11/17/1990 | See Source »

...Speaker, small-time heroin peddler and barker for the Blue Note Lounge, a scumbucket strip joint in San Francisco's Tenderloin. The home is prison, out of which he is not likely to stay long. This is partly because his dim sidekick Rooski foolishly shot a Chinese druggist when the two of them were fumbling what was supposed to be a peaceful, harmless burglary. The main reason is that Joe belongs in jail, feels comfortable there. Not secure, understand, because dope selling in the lockup is even tougher than it is on the streets. Everyone there is a villain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Jailhouse Blues | 5/21/1990 | See Source »

...work at Hogan's Alley is enough to make most role players swear off a life of crime. Says Ronald Grayson, 33, of Triangle, Va., who plays a dope peddler: "You get to see how the law works without being on the wrong end of the stick. When they twist those cuffs on you, boy, it makes you think." Hogan's Alley has a similar sobering effect on its students. Says Raymond, an agent-trainee whose last name was withheld to protect him from the genuine criminals he will encounter after he graduates: "When you arrest someone, it hits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hogan's Alley, Virginia Crime Is This Town's Job | 4/30/1990 | See Source »

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