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...rosary bracelets were "being sent to you by an enterprise that is owned and operated for the benefit of Murray Kram." Murray did not bother with Irish-sounding names ("I don't think more than 40% or 50% of the people with Irish names are Catholics"), filled his sucker lists with Italian and Slavic names. In 1955 Murray Kram's Religious Distributing Co. grossed...
Clausen offers his ritual bull's-eyes to Colquhoun, but later makes the agonized confession that he has been an all-night sucker for the beastly magic of a local witch doctor. Hoping to bridge the gulf between European and African knowledge, he has dabbled in mysterious rites (in one, a man was burned to death by no visible flame) and is now desperately afraid for his soul. The fate of this jungle Dr. Faustus is sealed in what the press calls "the great Clausen scandal." Kenya-raised Novelist Huxley (Red Strangers, The Walled City) has written a literate...
...unforgettable exordiums of music, echoing, as it does, what might be called the elemental power of the ethos of sublimity . . ."). The Overture is scored for "a prodigious array of percussion, pitched and unpitched," including three rifles, three Hoover vacuum cleaners (two uprights in B-flat, one horizontal with detachable sucker in C) and one electric floor polisher (in E-flat...
...about time. For months SEC and the American Stock Exchange had been casting a suspicious eye on the trading in Sweet Grass, a favorite of the little speculator. Fortnight ago, Hearst Financial Columnist Leslie Gould listed it in his "Don't Be a Sucker" series as one of the hot items peddled over the counter by boiler shops using batteries of phones and sweet-talking salesmen. There were several reports that holders of big blocks of the stock were pushing it on over-the-counter brokers at 15% under the market price. On the American Exchange the stock became...
Freaks & Gaffs. Though the carny thinks it only just to fleece a sucker, he is rigidly honest with his own kind. If he needs money, he does not get a loan-he gets a "lift," and it is invariably repaid...