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...Love a Deal." Gilbert had tried his hand at making money down in Rio, but it was all kind of small time after Wall Street. Encountering a fruit peddler on Copacabana Beach, he haggled the price of a few oranges down from 20 cruzeiros apiece to 12. "I just love a deal," said Gilbert. He dabbled in beer stocks, pocketed $5,000 as management consultant to a lathe works, ran his stake high enough to move from dismal digs into a Copacabana suite that he leased from a feminine exile named Simone Delamarr, who had been one of King Farouk...
...original Pins and Needles was, in fact, a product of the borscht school: Composer Harold (I Can Get It for You Wholesale} Rome, then an unknown tune peddler, was a member of the staff of a resort hotel when the I.L.G.W.U. heard of his talent for grinding out entertainment for the guests. He agreed to write songs for the union's review, and the next four years he turned out four different versions of Pins and Needles. The Columbia album is "a compendium of the best" from each edition...
...bobby pin or a bottle of shampoo, the Shopmobile will soon be rolling to the rescue. Built for the McCrory Corp., which controls a nationwide empire of retail stores including Lerner Stores, Economy Auto Supply and 600 five and tens, this 1962 version of the old country peddler looks like a city bus with show windows, has hip-wide aisles and every available inch of interior wall space festooned with hardware, notions, toilet items, toys. It will also carry a catalogue from which bulkier merchandise may be ordered for delivery next time the Shopmobile comes around. The first Shopmobile will...
Near Milk Street in Boston, a fruit peddler keeps his little radio nestled among the purple plums, and startled passers-by always pause to stare at the singing fruit. Small boys on bicycles churn along the roads with radios topped with long whip antennas (they used to carry fishing rods). On a downtown Dallas street recently, pedestrians arched their brows at an open manhole from which floated the ball-game scores. Chinese listeners in San Francisco may soon-if the electronic wrinkles are ironed out-watch the video version of Gunsmoke while their radios blast out a Cantonese translation, courtesy...
...brothers had drifted south to organize a pool hall, bar and smoke shop in Los Angeles' Bella Union Hotel. Next year, after word of new gold strikes in Arizona, "Big Mike" Goldwater hitched up his mule team and set off as a peddler serving the miners' camps. Frontier business proved prosperous; in 1860, Mike put up a trading post at Ehrenberg, a riverside site he named for a family friend. Mike opened a bigger store in Phoenix in 1870, sold out to establish another in Prescott; at one time or another, there have been Goldwater trading posts...