Word: shops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...club, the young executive finds there are strict dos and don'ts. In some, second, third, and fourth-rank clubs, a member can get away with making a direct pitch for business, talk shop either on the greens or in the locker room. But at front-rank clubs, the hustler is shunned like the plague. The good clubs are hard to get into and expensive (up to $6,000 for the initiation fee alone), and most members resent an obvious mixing of business with pleasure...
...best approach is the indirect one in which the young executive never talks shop, never seems to be selling anything. Instead, he lets things take their natural course, picks up a game in the occasional twosome or threesome, makes polite conversation, may later offer to buy a drink, play a hand of cards, swap a story or two. Meanwhile, his wife is getting to know the other wives, his children are busy making friends in the club swimming pool. Gradually, if he plays a good game, he gets to be known, more people want to play with...
...stakes into four-and five-figure bankrolls. One of the brokerage offices' steadiest customers, Joe Hagger, sold his restaurant in order to play the market full time, recently built a new $30,000 house, and now plans to open a new business - Blind River's first pawn shop. "I know it will be lucrative," says...
Britain's gruff, Manhattan-born Sculptor Sir Jacob Epstein, 74, returned to his native island for a brief visit, sallied through an outdoor show of the Sculptors Guild with all the verve of a bull in a statuary shop. Suspiciously eying some nondescript, nonobjective works, Sir Jacob reissued one of his favorite dicta: "I don't like abstract art of any kind, by any artist. Imaginative realism is what I like, not photographic realism." Then he gazed skeptically at a welded bronze piece, managed to choke out a noncommittal "Novel." But it reminded him of the "stovepipes" turned...
...Coach Borah says that more eminent institutions of learning shop for tramp athletes, but put up a pious front, whereas he comes right out in the open. There is something to that ... If his methods catch on, we should not be surprised if other institutions of higher learning follow suit. One can imagine Yale appealing in the following terms...