Word: peddlers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Manhattan-born Abram S. Burrows, who looks like an accountant or a salesman (he has been both), worked as a Wall Street runner, a board boy, a coat label peddler until he was nearly 30. Then he sold gags to Eddie Garr, the mimic, for $125. That turned him into a radio writer. Until last summer, he wrote Duffy's Tavern...
Anita ("The Face") Colby, ex-Cover Girl No. 1, was named "the most beautiful woman in America." Picker: publicity-wise Harry Conover, Manhattan model-peddler. Also named: 1) Cinemactress Maureen O'Hara, "the perfect-feature girl;" 2) Ingrid Bergman (who acts for David Selznick, who employs Miss Colby as adviser), "the prettiest woman on the screen...
...towns that bear Abe Lincoln's name, the one in Illinois (pop. 12,750) got there first. Townsfolk proudly hark back to a homely ceremony in 1853 when Abe Lincoln, a local attorney, broke open a peddler's watermelon, scattered the seeds along the Chicago & Mississippi tracks. "Now," said Abe, "this town is duly christened...
...better first novel was Adria Locke Langley's A Lion Is in the Streets. It described the political and love life of a Huey Longish character who rose from pack peddler to total boss of Magnolia State. For A Lion, hungry M-G-M paid $250,000-the highest price on record for a novel's movie rights...
Bummy, born Abraham Davidoff in the brick jungles of Brooklyn's Brownsville, made his first impact on the world as a boy knish-peddler. In a short time he had all but eliminated competition, not through business acumen but by belting the brains out of other little knish peddlers...