Word: stores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pack suddenly erupted all over the meat and groceries. One photographer, battling for a superior position, fell into the refrigerator butter case; another mounted a display of luncheon meat; another stood oxford-deep in packaged cheese. A cameraman shorter than his peers leased (for $5) the shoulders of a store clerk and spurred his two-legged steed up and down the aisles, crying: "Faster! Faster...
...himself. Still another duty-bound photographer hurdled the baby-stroller of a startled matron, landed on a moving conveyor belt, and aimed his camera as the belt carried him relentlessly toward the checking stand. "Somebody stop this thing!" he yelled. "It's wrecking my shot!" Farther across the store, in the midst of the cascading canned goods and shattering glass, a woman shopper shook her head in awed incredulity. Said she: "I've never seen men act like this before...
...principal of the Snowball, Ark. high school. Although he had been singing, composing and collecting folk material all his life ("I sometimes feel like a bunch of musical nerves without any steerage"), he did not try to go commercial until two years ago, when a local music-store owner heard him sing The Battle of New Orleans and sent him to a folk-song-conscious music publisher in Nashville, Tenn. The song took off in half a dozen different records, which stood to earn Jimmie more than $100,000, and abruptly ended his teaching career...
...increased net income is particularly welcome this year because our recent expansion of the Harvard Square store caused a substantial debt," Teele explained. "Additional capital is also needed in order to expand our inventories," he added...
Last April Dr. Vaught called at Jimmy's store, gave him a Bible ("The first New Testament I ever saw," says Jimmy), read him some verses of Scripture. After a revival meeting, Jimmy was converted, joined Immanuel Baptist Church and broke with his segregationist cronies-but refuses to say whether or not he himself is still a segregationist. "I haven't seen one of those men," he says, "since I accepted Jesus as my Saviour." He also gave up smoking, drinking and joyrides in Cadillacs...