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...papers that Eleanor is accusing me of being a tightwad. She is absolutely right. Compared to me, Scrooge was a philanthropist. For instance, throughout our marriage we lived in a five-story town house on Beekman Place, with only one lousy elevator. The furniture was secondhand stuff-designed by Chippendale and other 18th century English carpenters. The old Crown Derby plates she ate off had occasional cracks, and the antique Paul Storr silver was once slobbered in by King George III. The pictures on the walls were horrors-the work of hacks like Rembrandt, Hals, Velasquez and Renoir...
Working 16 hours a day in a small rented shop, he made a modest living repairing and selling secondhand machines. As his business increased, he borrowed $2,000 from the United Service for New Americans and imported four sewing machines from Italy's Necchi (rhymes with Becky) Sewing Machine Co., with which he had done business in Poland. The machines could make buttonholes, sew on buttons, embroider, etc. without any attachments, tricks most other machines could...
...Harper's Bazaar, Novelist-Playwright Truman (The Grass Harp) Capote recalled a touching secondhand memory of Greta Garbo: "I stopped by the apartment of a friend who previously that afternoon had entertained Garbo at tea. As I entered the room and started to sit down in an especially comfortable-looking chair piled with pillows, my friend, a very sane fellow, suddenly asked would I mind not using that particular chair. 'You see,' he said solemnly, 'she sat there: the dent in the little red pillow, that's where her hand rested-I should like...
...given a big boost by magnetic-tape recording equipment. With it, pirates can record top artists and orchestras from radio or TV broadcasts, frequently have finished recordings ready for sale within a few days. They job them through a few legitimate stores, but mainly through shops dealing primarily in secondhand records. Long-playing records, which cost pirates only about $1 to $1.50 apiece to press, are retailed at anywhere from...
...payments for four years over Clark's objections. Their excuse: the Clarks were quarreling at the time and the situation was "extremely confused." Esther Clark in her turn admitted having purchased the horse out of her relief checks. But, she hastened to add, the riding boots were secondhand...