Word: shopped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Almost Christmas again--and, we know you, your problem is you haven't even begun to shop. Got it in one, eh? Yes, and now Cardullo's is closed (not that Aunt Edna liked those sticky Smyrna figs you palmed off on her last year, anyway), and Uncle Jack is much too busy at Leavitt and Peirce's to attend to your simple needs (Cousin Thelma wasn't at ali pleased with those personalized kitchen matches, you will remember). What, then, is to be done? Well, how about a record for once? We've heard...
Asked last week what he thought about such drives, President Kennedy told his press conference that just because some merchant has Polish ham in his shop does not brand him as unpatriotic. "I don't think it really carries on much of an effective fight against the spread of Communism," he said...
When the 37-year-old woman who ran a pet shop in a Los Angeles suburb cut her right middle finger on the metal rim of a tropical-fish tank, she thought nothing of it. The cut seemed to be clean, and it healed quickly. But within a month, abscesses formed under the skin on the back of her finger and hand. They were not painful, but they were unsightly, and occasionally one of them burst and oozed a sticky fluid until a new scab formed. The woman's 18-year-old son cut his finger on the same...
...King-Size Boost. Rupert, who started out as a university chemistry instructor, got into business out of a vague desire to do research into tobacco and to "manufacture something.'' In 1942, with a $40 grubstake, he opened a tiny tobacco shop in Johannesburg. Not until after World War II was he able to scrape up enough capital and equipment to mass-produce cigarettes-and when he did, he nearly went broke. He staved off disaster only by persuading London's Rothman of Pall Mall to allow him to make and market their brands (Pall Mall, Consulate...
Perhaps it is the distinctive nature of the gift shop which enables the sales girl to say with a straight face: "Yensir, one gorilla. Shall I gift-wrap...