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...delightfully with Bobby Clark. Even the W. C. Fields routine with McCarthy pales next to Clark's classic buffoonery. Each wheeze is on hand--"you fugitive from a picket fence," "you animated clothespin," "you talking totem pole"--but crisp as toast before that long-term contract with Chase and Sanborn...
...with economic health. The winter sun shone brightly on streets jammed with new automobiles, on the white stone and plate glass of tall buildings; it gave life and movement to the lavishly plumed hats of the well-dressed wives of the prosperous on their way to tea at Sanborn's. But the scene was deceptive. The new President knew it, would have to face...
Walgreen's got far more than a drugstore. Sanborn's is now a restaurant. It also sells clothes, furniture, imported perfumes, etc. It is also a wholesale agency for 29 U.S. manufacturers, and has over 1,300 native craftsmen under contract. Total Sanborn income: 20,000,000 pesos ($4,000,000) a year...
...Frank Sanborn had first startled the Mexican drug business by refusing to pay doctors a percentage on prescriptions he filled. His next innovation: an American soda fountain. By 1919, when Sanborn's moved to the Casa de Azulejos, it had become a favorite gathering place for Mexicans and American tourists alike...
...customers hoped that Sanborn's would not become just another Walgreen's store. Anyway, as a historic monument, nothing in the Casa can be changed without Government permission. Sanborn even had to get an okay to hang pictures. Said Walgreen's vice president and treasurer Robert G. Knight: "Sanborn's is unique and we'll keep it that...