Word: peddlers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mussolini's recent power grab was of less interest than neighborhood scandal. But Carlino, the Fascist clerk, itched for the Second Wave that would bring revenge on his political enemies. And Maciste, the Communist blacksmith, glumly recognized the shattering defeat that Italian leftists had suffered. Fruit Peddler Ugo, his hotheaded disciple, broke with him over weakkneed party policy, but returned one night when he learned that the Second Wave was starting. They roared off on Maciste's motorcycle in a desperate attempt to warn their comrades, but the squadristi shot Maciste dead and wounded Ugo. He eluded them...
Died. A. (for Amadeo) P. (for Peter) Giannini, 79, Italian immigrant's son who rose from fruit and vegetable peddler to become founder and chairman of the world's largest private bank, the Bank of America; after a heart attack; in San Mateo, Calif. (see BUSINESS...
...Charley Henry, the peddler, was a familiar figure in Winchester, Va. (pop.: 14,000), for he had lived there all his life. A few oldtimers remembered him as a young man, standing tall and straight by his vegetable cart or striding briskly down to the Lutheran Church with his wife Fannie on his arm. But as the years passed, Charley had changed; he was no longer the laughing, lively fellow he had once been...
...trust for the kids. From now on, on the last day before Easter holidays and again before Christmas, every boy & girl at John Kerr will get a $5 bill from Charley's estate to spend as he wishes. Old Winchesterites might soon forget Peddler Charles Henry but young Winchesterites would remember him for years to come...
...port of Callao, the "coke" capital of Peru, the vice is out in the open. Hundreds of peddlers, many of whom are their own best customers, offer a variety of items ranging from the plain leaves to pichicato or la diosa blanca (the white goddess), the drug in its refined form. Snuffing up a pinch of the powder in full view of passers-by last week, one old peddler brazenly solicited customers: "The only danger is that the wind will blow the pichicato away, that...