Word: stores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Years later (after nearly working himself to death-as a candy-store delivery boy, lithographic-supply salesman, bill collector-while going through high school and New York University Law School), it came time for Jack Javits to make his own decision about party affiliation. He remembered how his father had been sent vote-buying by Tammany-and Jack became a Republican. He was a devoted and active follower of that able, highly eccentric Republican Fiorello La Guardia...
...months, he went from store to store until he had called on every retail merchant in the district; he averaged six speeches a night, endorsing price and rent controls, arguing for lower tariffs and higher immigration, championing organized labor and attacking the National Association of Manufacturers. When he discovered that the district had high literacy, he switched from handing out cigars to handing out pencils stamped with his name...
Publisher Stauffer was born in Hope, Kans., where his father had taken over a general store from the father of President Eisenhower before the Eisenhowers moved to Denison, Texas, where Ike was born.† At the University of Kansas one of Stauffer's closest friends was Classmate Alf M. Landon, and Stauffer headed a Landon-for-President committee...
...hoax to shatter the faith of day people in their own "book lists." Shepherd urged fans to canvass shops for the nonexistent title I, Libertine, ascribed to "nonauthor than" Frederick R. Ewing, "well-remembered for his BBC talks" on 18th century erotica. By noon next day, one Manhattan store had received some 30 orders. The title mysteriously appeared on Boston's list of banned books. Enterprising Publisher Ian Ballantine quickly had publicity-prone Shepherd ghostwrite such a book (with Fantasy-Fiction Writer Theodore Sturgeon). Some 30 days later they served up an 18th century creampuff (" 'Gadzooks,' quoth...
...Flowers from the University Florest, a meal ticket from the University Luncheonette, a Harvard scarf from J. August, stationary from Bob Slate's a book from the Harvard Book Store, a record from Briggs and Briggs, tickets from the Brattle Theater, perfume from the Coop, and cigarettes from Philip Morris Company" were the gifts accompanying the title of Miss Cliffe...