Word: stores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...city, and there seemed something symbolic about their action. But Ike Eisenhower, undaunted, went on injecting human relations into international relations. Never had the U.S. had a finer ambassador. He broke through the security cordon around him, and, to the delight of passersby, plunged unheralded into a toy store "to buy something for my kids"-meaning his three grandchildren. Rejecting some boy dolls ("My little girls don't want boy dolls"), he picked three girl dolls, plus a model glider for young David, plunged out of the store gesturing at his military aide and saying: "He pays...
Family and Early Years: Born in McRae, Ga. (pop. 1,900), where his father ran the general store. As a boy he clerked in the store, took charge of the accounts when he was only 14. Graduated from the University of Georgia with honors in 1912 at 18, won a scholarship to Harvard's Graduate School of Business Administration, graduated there with distinction in 1914, earned enough money tutoring to travel in Europe. Served overseas as a captain in the Yankee Division in World War I, came home to marry Mary Davenport of Americus, Ga. in 1918. They have...
...postwar years, Graves did other things that were then orthodox, e.g., wrote his notable autobiography, Goodbye to All That, at the age of 33, tried to make both ends meet by running a small store out Oxford took a job as Professor of English literature at Egyptian University in Cairo. "Too weak to dig, too proud to beg, he found himself on the horns of a dilemma that afflicts most poets-"There's no money in poetry, but then, there's no poetry in money, either...
...Hard Sell. In Waco, Texas, less than two weeks after the Clifton-Simpson, Inc. furniture store advertised a "Sink or Sell'' sale, a two-inch downpour caved in the roof, did some $50,000 damage...
Battle Plan. In Riccarton, N.Z., burglars broke into a hardware store and stole acetylene gas and oxygen cylinders, broke into another and stole a blowtorch, then broke into a branch of the Bank of New South Wales, cut open the safe, stole...