Word: shops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cambridge police are looking for a woman driver who backed a car into the window of the College Specialty Shop at 6 Holyoke St. yesterday at 6 p.m., causing an estimated $150 worth of damage...
According to W.R. Corbin, the shop's proprietor, a bystander observed the accident and gave the car's license number to the police...
...discovered that telephone salesgirls sold 112% more department store goods than floor salesgirls, at a cost 51% less. They do not intend to let merchants forget it. Says A. T. & T. Assistant Vice President James V. Ryan: "We will soon launch an advertising campaign to persuade more people to shop by phone. The merchants had better get ready to handle the phone calls," i.e., install more, phones...
Only one member of this barbershop quartet around the Square was not fazed by the talk of increased prices for tonsorial care. In fact, he was quite pleased by it all. Larry Cirella, of the Hotel Commander Barber Shop, is not affected by any Barbers Association edict because he runs a one-man business. His price to students and professors will stay the same. "I'll probably profit from the increase," added Cirella. "I am for the boys. My shop is like a home to them...
...Stephen Bird, company director, Liverpool." Thus equipped, Hume began appearing under various aliases in Montreal, Zurich, New York, Frankfort, Los Angeles, without ever being recognized. He spent most of the time in Switzerland, combining petty thievery with his courtship of auburn-haired Divorcee Trudi Sommer, 28, a Zurich beauty-shop owner. To lonely-hearted Trudi, Hume was Johnny Bird, a Canadian test pilot. At intervals, he would vanish mysteriously on "business trips...