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...Stay. The Senators' other points, as gathered secondhand by the probing press...
Ernie Mott's middle name is Verdun, because his tosspot, philandering artist father was killed at Verdun in World War I. Ernie's mother keeps a secondhand furniture store, lends money and receives stolen goods on the side. Ernie is apprentice to a lithographer, is fired for laziness and ineptitude, becomes a hanger-out at the Fun Fair, a penny arcade replete with peep shows, pinball games, shooting gallery and a change girl named Ada -"a proper, right, straight up smasher of a bride" with yellow hair, red fingernails and a close-fitting sweater...
Paul Hoffman has always bet on winners -big winners. First, it was the automobile. As a boy, he learned about cars from a decrepit secondhand Pope-Toledo that he heckled his inventor-father into buying. When Paul quit the University of Chicago at 18, he began selling autos in Chicago by the simple but unusual method of driving one up Michigan Avenue and not returning until he had sold...
...year-old John D. Rocke feller Jr. added $2½ million of properties to his Manhattan real-estate holdings last week. Among his new tenants adjoining handsome Rockefeller Center were three bars (one a milk bar), two five-chair bar bershops, a used-jewelry shop, a corse-tiere, a secondhand bookstore. Seller; Beatrice Bend Berle, wife of Assistant Secretary of State Adolf Augustus Berle Jr. (Mrs. Berle is now a practicing physician in Washington, D.C.) This was the biggest Manhattan realty transaction in seven years. But it had special significance: the latest Rockefeller acquisitions (at three Sixth Avenue corners...
...case should any dealer . . . engage in ... misrepresenting merchandise as being of a greater quality than it actually is, or being new when it is secondhand...