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...Fisticuffer Harry Krakow ("King Levinsky"),* onetime Chicago fish-peddler, 1934 was a miserable year. In January his sister & manager, "Leaping Lena" Levinsky, divorced her husband in order to have more time to run her brother's affairs. In March he was thrashed by German Walter Neusel. In May, he went to a hospital, for a minor breakdown. In August, he married one Rosie Glickman ("Roxanne Carmine"), World's Fair fan dancer. A month later, Rosie Glickman sued King Levinsky for divorce because he hit her on the jaw. Last month, King Levinsky was matched to fight a four...
...registered. Founded in the second year of President Jefferson's first term (1801-05), Scovill is the epitome of all good things Yankee. It was started as a brass-button factory. Scovill buttons and Scovill notions were the best stock-in-trade of every 19th Century peddler from Bangor to the Yazoo Delta. Scovill made plates for daguerreotypes. Scovill made the Queen Anne burners for the lamps Rockefeller filled with kerosene. Scovill made time fuses, bullet jackets, shell cases in the War. And today the average U. S. citizen seldom goes from dawn to dusk without using a half...
...fellow-boarder, a crippled youth who was no less prim of speech than she, but she guarded her virginal beauty for a vague another. More by good luck than good management she escaped the snares laid by a wily woman-hunter and the cruder advances of a loathsome dope-peddler. Fittingly established at last as private secretary to a rich lady of charitarian views, Mary (now Marilyn) met the man of her dreams, who turned out to be an inventor of genius, a gentleman born, and a landed proprietor. All the signs were right; Mary let culture go, fell into...
...Each declines to tell his age. Each performs good works among poor Negroes. Each lulls his followers with a catchword (Father Divine's: "Peace, It's Wonderful''). Each preaches a warm, rambling theology. But Elder Michaux makes no claim to divinity. Once a fish peddler in Norfolk, he preached in Hopewell, Va., went to Washington in 1929 to found the Church of God under the Gospel Spreading Association. A small Alexandria radio station, WJSV, began picking up his services. When CBS absorbed WJSV, Elder Michaux was the only feature retained for the chain...
...sexpartite municipal bond house was established in Manhattan by what onetime foreign newspaper peddler...