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Married. Muhammad AH, 25, best remembered as Cassius Clay, onetime heavyweight champion of the world, now deposed and appealing a conviction for draft-dodging; and Belinda Boyd, 17, salesgirl in a Chicago Black Muslim bakery whom he has been dating for a year; he for the second time (his first marriage, to Model Sonji Roi, 27, lasted only eleven months before she got fed up with Muslim taboos); in a Baptist ceremony with additional Muslim prayers in Clay's five-room bungalow on Chicago's South Side...
While its popularity may silence the gloomy critics of the national scene who proclaim that America never reads, the book's success threatens to throw a wench into the social machine. From Philly to Frisco scenes like this one take place: Impatient businessman: "Excuse me." Salesgirl blushes and puts down her copy. "I'm terribly sorry. I usually read only during lunch hour, but this movie star just got breast cancer and I just couldn't tear my self away...." The effect on the economy could be devastating...
...happens to be a Negro. It is in the tiny affairs of daily living that the individual needs to be treated as equal; as long as the average white Southerner feels set upon from without, he will take revenge on the Negro in those tiny affairs: the idle salesgirl who lets him stand unattended for five minutes; the white taxi driver who doesn't see him trying to flag a cab; the teacher who doesn't go out of his way to help a colored child; the service-station attendant who services everyone else's car before...
...service and a good image that attract the quick-roving customer. Courteous salespeople are, of course, the first line of defense, and many aggressive merchandisers now hold training classes, insist that clerks learn everything about the stock. President Mildred Custin of Manhattan's Bonwit Teller trains each salesgirl to telephone special customers when interesting new merchandise arrives...
Nearer to Second. The May Co. was once a place to pick up a cheap blouse or a cute salesgirl; Comedian Jack Ben ny, in a famous routine, maintained that he found Wife Mary Livingstone behind a May lingerie counter. Inexpensive clothes are still available at May, but nowadays they have some style; May buyers in New York and Paris quickly pass on the latest fashion news. Aware of its customers' growing affluence, May now stocks more expensive soft goods, has broadened its range to include such luxuries as gourmet foods, costly pool tables and antique furniture...