Word: shopped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sebring's establishment, which has doubled in size since he first set up shop in 1959 (last year he grossed about $50,000, expects to do $100,000 this year), is a ten-chair, swinging bedlam, with a hi-fi dishing out a diet of progressive jazz and the recorded works of Frankie and other customers. It has a red and black floor, Indian brass hanging lamps, paneled partitions and-in Sebring's private cell-velvet drapes. A visit begins with a mandatory shampoo (Sebring, like most of the "new wave" of barbers, prefers to work on damp...
Over the years, the 100-room Cavendish had become Mayfair's best-stocked curiosity shop. It was crammed with mauve and red plush sofas, chairs, beds and chests, mostly of vast age and hideousness, and almost all associated with the ancient indiscretions of the illustrious that flowed from Rosa's memory like champagne from "cherrybums," as she called the Jeroboams that were consumed by the case. Her walls, lined with signed pictures, were a 'Oo Was 'Oo of her times...
...Then, one night last week, the three made their break just after the 9:30 bed check. They stuffed pillows into their cots, topped them off with crude but passable dummy heads fashioned from plaster, paint, and hair scraps that they had gathered from the prison barber shop. The holes in the wall were only 10 in. by 14 in., and though the shoulders of the three men were as broad as 17 in., they pushed through into a little-used utility corridor behind the cell wall. From there, they climbed up a 30-ft. pipe to an air-conditioning...
...year-old West Berlin mechanic who was separated from his East German fiancee by the Wall, six young Berliners started in the cellar of a West Berlin tavern, dug a shaft 9 ft. below ground that surfaced 60 ft. away in the basement of an East Berlin photograohy shop. There they made rendezvous with eleven friends and relatives, including Scholz's fiancee and her four-month-old daughter, Suzanne, who had to be fed tranquilizers so that she would not cry out on the trip back...
...will soon blossom with art, abstract and otherwise. Hired to gather original paintings, etchings, drawings and sculptures in the U.S. and abroad was Cinemactor Vincent Price, 51, epicure, art collector and ex-champ (in the art category) of TV's $64,000 Challenge. Yaleman ('33) Price will shop for items priced mostly under $100. and Sears will feature them in its 1,500-page catalogue. The venture, conceded one Searsman, is "highly exploratory...