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...deepest dissatisfaction was found not in Italy (where, on the eve of historic elections, many declare themselves "better off"), but in France. Two pieces of testimony, from opposite poles of French life, show how relative the sense of ill-being can be. Said a not-too-clean salesgirl, in a slum grocery shop in Paris: "I get 9,000 francs [about $30] a month; not enough to live on and too much to die on. . . . I don't know about [political issues]. All I know is that I can't live on my salary and that prices have...
...They only spend 10 or 15 cents on each one, though," the red-hatred salesgirl said, as she rang up 80 cents and slipped eight cards into an envelope for a nervous youth. "It always surprises me when they let loose on a dollar...
Cried a woman in a Seattle department-store elevator: "Honest, it's a sin to buy so much with prices like they are. The way I figure, Harry's paycheck is worth half of what it was eight years ago. So when the salesgirl tells me how much something costs, I just divide it in two in my head. That way, I don't feel...
...desk has a bargain-basement clutter of sketches, snapshots and a teacup or two. For her big-spending customers, such as Mrs. E. F. Hutton, Mrs. Pierre du Pont and Mrs. James Van Alen, Sophie usually pops out of her office and plays salesgirl herself. She is quite a salesgirl, and can usually manage to charm the customers into wearing what she thinks they should. Before an adamantine customer who knows exactly what she wants, regardless, Sophie gracefully gives in. "I used to tell everyone when something wasn't becoming to them," she says. "Then they went right...
...Angeles department store, a salesgirl took from her purse a paper bearing the letters V, M, B and S. Beside each, she scribbled numbers, then mailed the sheet to Manhattan's Simplicity Pattern Co. She was reporting on dress-pattern sales in her department - strictly as a favor to the flattering Simplicity salesman who had presented her with a smile and a shiny silver compact. In 100 key U.S. stores, other girls did Simplicity a like favor...