Word: peddlers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...house to house peddler will soon be no more than a memory. Like the lamplighter that faded away over a quarter of a century ago, the doorstep salesman is fast becoming the victim of a cruel technology. The unending onslaught of bigger and better devices for the Good Life has added to his wares such items as electric pencil sharpeners and hair-scratching devices. And on occasion, he may even sell a Modern Magic water closet, a miniature reducing machine or even a toothbrush with a plastic handle to hold the paste. Even now his display case bulges to twice...
...hero is a peddler-limner named Jude. Jude spends his winters painting in the figures of men and women on canvases but leaving the faces blank. When spring comes, he saddles his cart, piles in the canvases and hits up the New England towns for people who will pay $3 to $5 to have the blank spots filled in with their "likenesses." Rainbow on the Road covers one season's adventures on Jude's circuit as told in flashback by a 14-year-old boy who goes with...
...dedicated to the age of chivalry, boasts more than 40 members, all of whom go through an elaborate system of probation, starting as pilgrims and gradually working up to burgher, squire and knight. They bear special names: e.g., a Hollywood physician is known as Knight Hypocrates or the Pill Peddler. Members carry swords and wear helmets, use what they consider to be antique language ("gnaw" for eat, "torch" for cigar), and engage in musical and beer-drinking contests. In the works: a club house with moat and drawbridge...
...peddler's son, a puny boy born in the shadow of the el in a Boston slum. At school his grades were not notable and hardly anyone noticed him-except the bullies. They picked on him. Even when he grew up and became a Doctor of Philosophy he had to take a job he didn't like. And then, suddenly, Harry Dexter White got his chance to show everyone how important he could...
Life Beneath the El. White's parents were Jacob and Sarah Weit, who came to the U.S. from Lithuania (then a province of Russia). A peddler, Jacob moved into the hardware and crockery business, and at one time the family had four stores. Harry White was born Oct. 29, 1892, at 57 Lowell Street, Boston, in a crowded, busy, tenement district beneath the dust and roar of the el. A nervous boy, he belonged to a grade-school group that met one night a week at the Webster Literary Club, where each boy would write and read a composition...