Word: salo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...like a factory worker heaving open a start-up lever of a large turbine engine. Then, with the lights reflecting in her eyeglasses, she bounces up and down, patting the side of the machine and saying, "Come on! Big one, big one! Here it comes!" Her friend Janet Salo, by contrast, tends to snap the lever down; it is all in the elbow and in her whispered incantation: "Seven-seven-seven-se ven." Both of them admit that they will squeal for any jackpot from 50 cents up. At one point, when they have pooled their money with a third...
...What's that other game," Salo asks at one point, "that spinning one Karen said I should play...
Frederick Salo, 23 years the owner of Keezer's New and Used Clothing Store, died in July of a heart attack. Salo, who retired three years ago worked at the store since immigrating from Germany in 1938 and became friends with a large corps of Harvard students, alumni, and administrators who regularly patronized the offbeat Huron Ave. establishment...
...Commencement the parents of graduates would come in and thank Fred, saying that they could have never afforded Harvard without the low prices at Keezers Salo's widow Dorothy said yesterday...
According to Epps, Salo "was kind to a penniless student," frequently lowering the price when a student did not have enough money...