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...pizza as opposed to General Wong'schicken," he says...

Author: By Elizabeth A. Gudrais, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: DINING: BEHIND THE LINES | 11/6/1998 | See Source »

...ambitious young man named Alfred Emanuel Lyon went to work selling cigarets to stores on Manhattan's lower East Side. In the first three days he failed to sell a pack; every sales talk got the same answer: "Schicken." Just in time, a friend stopped Lyon from chucking the whole business. "Schicken," said he, did not mean "no," as Lyon had thought; it meant "send them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: More Cigarets? | 3/26/1945 | See Source »

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