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Mobster Luciano, pimp and drug peddler, was beginning to look like a nice guy -if anybody believed the columns. Since he had been sprung from prison and deported to Italy, some of the columnists had discovered a heart of gold beating under his silk shirt. Somehow, said the keyhole-peepers, Lucky from his prison cell had helped the U.S. win the war. The Mirror's Walter Winchell solemnly assured his readers that after Lucky died, the Congressional Medal of Honor would be awarded...
...London peddler, howling unintelligible Cockney among gear groans and horn toots: "Cut iris, cut cauliflower, Yorkshire blue peas and brand new potatoes...
...graduate of Choate and Yale, he started as a pickle-salting hand for $1 a day in the Plymouth, Ind. plant where his father started before him. Later stints in the Berkeley, Calif, plant as cleanup man and in the London branch as pickle peddler helped him through the lower ranks. In 1936 he settled down in Pittsburgh for final grooming before taking over the family empire...
...Communist -turned -book -peddler sat uneasily before a Washington microphone. Reason for Earl Browder's discomfort: a battery of four newsmen, a little less than friendly, a little more than anxious to interview him on Mutual's Meet the Press program...
...wacky and it was wistful, like a beggar's dream. Cried sallow Santi Paladino, Italy's newest peddler of political nostrums: "With a federation of the United States, Italy and some other nations, and a lot of atomic bombs, there would be no wars. This would solve all of Italy's problems...