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Early in the winter of 1939 - Mrs. Kister cannot remember the date exactly, but it had already snowed - a Pole took a pushcart loaded with unbanned Roy books out on the streets of Warsaw to see if the Germans would permit them to be sold. They were sold. At the end of the eight months that Mrs. Kister and her daughter were in occupied Warsaw, 200 pushcart book peddlers, most of them women, sold Roy books on the streets of Warsaw. Bestsellers: history, dictionaries...
...Narragansett, occasionally throws quiet parties for her dancer colleagues. Otherwise she works her shapely legs off rehearsing, washes her own tights, spends her time on the sidelines cheering on the other members of the troupe. To Ballet Boss Hurok, who has managed everything from a peddler's pushcart to Isadora Duncan, Angel Chase is the answer to an impresario's dream-art's ardent athlete, a check's most beautiful signature. Says Sol of their joint enterprise: "The Ballet Theatre combines financial respectability with artistical principle...
...Hollywood, or painless, treatment of the same subject as Leftist Michael Gold's Jews Without Money. An elderly Rumanian named Mr. Marco is the acknowledged patriarch of the pushcart market and adjacent tenements under Manhattan's Williamsburg Bridge. Shrewd as Solomon and benign as an Easter bunny, Mr. Marco spends his days getting evicted tenants restored to their rooms, destitute European refugees set up in the pushcart business. But eventually a real-estate company razes the tenements and disperses the pushcarts. At a last neighborhood party, brightened by his market-place alumni who have grown rich, Mr. Marco...
C.I.O. President Phil Murray this week blamed the scrap brokers. They have hoarded enough scrap to make 2,000,000 tons of steel, said he, to force a break in the price ceiling ($20 a ton at basing point). But the scrap men, from the 250,000 pushcart junkies who collect a ton or so a day to the big brokers who trade 100,000 tons, all say there is no money in scrap at that price. The junkies would rather collect paper, or work in a factory. The classification yards are short of men to sort and bale...
Photographers last week found that Soprano Varnay lived near a poor pushcart section of Manhattan (see cut). In the past year she had sung only in three small town recitals, booked by Columbia Concerts. Last week her managers read Soprano Varnay's press notices-and got busy...