Word: shopped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Blumenthal's formative years were spent in Nazi Germany and then Imperial Japan. His parents were nonpracticing Jews, while he is a baptized Presbyterian. His father, who owned a women's clothing shop, was hauled off to Buchenwald in 1938 and was released only after the four-member family, including Sister Stephanie, agreed to leave the country. They booked passage to Shanghai. In his teens, Blumenthal became a streetwise Shanghai kid, but when the Japanese occupied the city, he and his family were herded into a compound, where inmates suffered disease and starvation. Blumenthal emerged from the confinement...
...hair covered by black kerchiefs knotted under black felt hats. "This cooperative has 10,000 acres, and it all used to belong to two men who only hired a few workers when they needed them," says Francisco Antonio Pombinho, 42, a worker in the co-op's machine shop. "Now there are 300 of us, and we work all the year round...
...psychological. Says he: "We're all trying to find that little secret, but it's all in the mind." Says another pro who is disgusted by the stampede to new racquets: "People will do anything to improve their game except work on their strokes." Beverly Hills Tennis Shop Salesman Vinnie Thomas reports that most sales of the Prince are made to men over 40 searching for a tennis fountain of youth. Says Thomas: "Very few young people buy them." As for the young themselves. New Jersey Tournament Player Paul Barrett, 15, sums up: "When somebody shows up with...
...unharmed, even though a $1.5 million ransom demand had not been met. That night, acting on a telephone tip, police found the body of a tortured hoodlum, his face burned and battered beyond recognition, his death caused by strangulation. The next day a Monreale jeweler was murdered in his shop-only five minutes after Giuseppe Quartuccio had been seen giving him the Mafia's classic goodbye kiss on each cheek. Asked about the ominous embrace, Quartuccio said sadly, "My friend? He had the courage to console me and clasp me after the terrible event." In the next four weeks...
...decade ago. He had just taken over the family's thriving retailing business after the death of his father, Lord Fraser of Allander, founder of the House of Fraser and a legendary British merchant. In 30 years, Lord Fraser had built his business from a draper's shop to an empire with sales of about $275 million annually. Sir Hugh moved vigorously into his father's shoes, increasing sales to $500 million in six years and ridding Harrods of some of its crustiness. In addition, he built Scottish & Universal Investments, at one time only a holding company...