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Australian retailing was still in the Middle Ages when such practices were first introduced to Aussie shoppers by Sidney Myer, a penniless Russian Jew who emigrated to Australia in 1905 and began to hawk merchandise from his back, not far from Melbourne. He moved up to a pushcart, then to a rented store, and by 1911 had amassed enough money to buy a small general store in Melbourne-right on the present site of Myer's. He quickly became the city's most successful businessman, outraging competitors by such novel practices as introducing "price leaders" to attract customers...
...victim was Marjorie Winifred Bird, a rich, neurotic American widow who hoped that the U.S. would one day be come a monarchy so that she could be its queen. The accused were Nicolas Sturdza, a penniless Rumanian homo sexual who styled himself prince and claimed that he was descended from the Moldavian kings, and Dr. Gérard Sa voy, a shady Lausanne psychiatrist who specialized in wealthy female patients and who, over the course of 18 months, prescribed for Mrs. Bird 18,970 barbiturate pills. Last week, in a Lausanne courtroom, the doctor was found guilty of murdering...
...Gifts. There was, as well, a happier phenomenon. From all parts of the U.S., money and bundles of clothing began pouring in for Marina. Virtually penniless all her life, she has received about $36,000 in gifts from sympathetic Americans. At the advice of lames Martin, who quit his job as a Dallas motel manager to become her business agent, Marina has set up a $25,000 trust fund for the children. It took some doing. Dallas' big First National Bank ("Give Us the Opportunity to Say Yes") said no. The fund was finally lodged with a small bank...
...association's outgoing president, Columbia Law Professor Walter Gellhorn, complained that, except in criminal proceedings, legal services are generally available only to those who can afford them. A penniless accused criminal must be provided with counsel, but lower- and middle-income people with civil problems often must make do without lawyers or "are likely to be served by lawyers with markedly inferior technical and ethical standards." Gellhorn mentioned legal "clinics" as a possibility, along with other substitutes for "traditional representation that cannot now be provided economically...
...superbly cooked meals-with wine, flowers and candles -to 15 or 20 of Chicago's poor every two weeks. In summer, they provide free vacations for twelve older people each month at a pleasant cottage on Delavan Lake, Wisconsin. Their ideal of a truly welcome gift for a penniless old woman is not a bundle of used clothing but a diamond ring on her silver wedding anniversary...