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More likely they will traipse off to the Neptune, a tiny Soho seafood house operated without frills by Sam Abrahams, who formerly peddled jellied eels from an East End pushcart. The first time a bunch of budget Baedekers swarmed into his place, Sam "couldn't understand where all the Americans came from." Today, however, Sam is well aware that nearly all of his Stateside customers brandish a $1.95 paperback tome titled Europe...
Died. Frank Desiderio, 88, a strapping Italian immigrant to the U.S. in 1904 who literally rose from rags, which he collected witn a pushcart in Newark, N.J,. to riches by converting the contents of other people's wastebaskets into the $50 million Whippany Paper Board Co., rolling out 1,800 tons of paperboard daily; of a stroke; in Orange...
...business, as the $12 billion-a-year garment industry dubs itself, is stretching out. In the lofts above the pushcart pandemonium of Manhattan's Seventh Avenue, Italian seamstresses have given way to Negroes and Puerto Ricans, and in carpeted executive suites, the district's predominantly Jewish chiefs proudly point out that more and more young gentiles are coming in as junior executives. The most significant change, however, is that giants are beginning to appear in an industry where the average firm has 40 employees. Biggest of them all is Jonathan Logan, Inc., whose sales, running 34% ahead...
...cake of soap. 52? v. 70? for a pound of cheese), but they have added a new verb to the Flemish language. It is superen, and it means to take a social hour in the supermarket, usually at night and with the family, piloting a pushcart among mountains of cans and valleys of prepacked meats...
Newspaper readers sometimes get the impression that lost masterpieces of art turn up continually, and that any old-looking picture in the attic or at an auction may be worth a fortune. The day-after fact: the typical news story about the Rembrandt that Aunt Sophie found in a pushcart usually comes unglued just a few days after it has been front-paged, but by then, it is no longer news. Contributing to the confusion is the fact that art experts generally refuse to challenge such stories, for fear of libel suits. Result: gullible collectors spend thousands each year purchasing...