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...birthplace, name, nationality-are doubtful, says Biographer Neumann. Probably he was born in Mughla, a little town in Anatolia, of Greek parents, christened Zacharias Basileos Zacharoff. He spent part of his youth in Constantinople, where he seems to have been at one time a fireman, at one time a pimp. Whether he also went to Russia for a time and married there (his alleged son, Hyman Barnett Zaharoff. is still trying to prove his paternity), Neumann leaves an open question. Less questionable is the tale of Zaharoff's absconding with 25 boxes of gum and 169 sacks of gallnuts...
Martyr Wessel earned his living as a pimp is glossed over in Germany since he wrote the words of the national Nazi anthem...
...late John Singer Sargent would occasionally mutter into his beard that "Portrait painting is a pimp's profession!" and go off to do his best work, loose inspired landscapes in watercolor. Frank O. Salisbury has little time for such relaxation. He is not only a court painter but a ceremonial painter, commissioned to record on enormous canvases such scenes as The King's Offering in Henry VII's chapel in Westminster Abbey; The Official Picture of H. R. H. Princess...
Bill Trent was a rent-collector in downtown Manhattan. Like most of his colleagues he eked out his salary by "shaking down'' tenants whose line of business was not strictly legal. His craving for women, liquor, gambling made money his obsession. Hard up, he shook down a pimp of his acquaintance once too often, found himself the unwilling accessory at a murder. He lost his job, tried desperately to chisel in on some steady racket. Rent-collecting among small shopkeepers had given him valuable information about when and where they kept their money. Soon...
...hard-boiled mother whose friend Jachman helps the young man get a job selling clothes in a department store. Lammchen is content to cook for Frau Pinneberg's noisy visitors but young Pinneberg feels ashamed when he finds that he is being pensioned by his mother's pimp. Presently the two young Pinnebergs are established in an attic over a stable. By the time Pinneberg has lost his job in the store and been manhandled by police in a political riot, he goes home to find that he has finally acquired a son, for whom there seems...