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...Piatigorsky's first cello teacher as that he had once paid Ginger Rogers $75 a week, and that Bing Crosby and Bob Hope had jostled backstage for a job at Paramount. Also, incredible as it may seem, the Russians were grateful because he had turned down a flesh peddler's offer of Leon Trotsky as a Paramount stage attraction...
...girl who would marry me. I am being haunted, but I don't know what my crime has been." He poured out more of his woes: when he got a job, he was either fired or the company went bankrupt; when he tried to be a peddler, no one would buy his combs and bits of ribbon; he had failed as a vendor of hot potatoes. If people were catching cold. Kawamura sneezed before anyone else; if there was a typhoon, flood or fire, Kawamura's few possessions were the first to be destroyed. "Why does everything happen...
...meets his John the Baptist, a peddler named Guadalupe, a fanatical Cristero veteran of Mexico's religious wars. They wander among shrines and through deserts until the boy becomes convinced that it is his destiny to unite in his person Christ and the Lord Tepozteco. The Passion play of Tlaltenalco gives him his opportunity, and he enters the village on Palm Sunday, riding a Chevrolet...
Editor Claude-Maxe, 45, a longtime peddler of ideas to newspapers, radio stations and ad agencies, will sell the magazine at newsstands (price: $1.20) instead of record shops, claims each record will play up to 1,000 times. "After years of selling ideas to others," he said, "I've finally sold one to myself...
...merger joins two of the nation's oldest store chains. Hecht was founded as a furniture store in east Baltimore in 1857 by Immigrant Peddler Samuel Hecht, four of whose five sons later entered the business (present Chairman Hecht is a grandson). May Co. got its start in 1878 in Leadville. Colo., a mining boom town where David May, a 26-year-old German immigrant, founded a clothing store. David May spread his stores through the Midwest, and his son Morton J. May, Buster May's father and the chairman of May Co., expanded the chain coast...