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There is a growing army of futile door-to-door peddlers. Every day in apartment houses, Sfeuerbeamten (tax officials) stick tags on pianos, couches, chairs, attaching them for unpaid taxes. A third of the tenants are behind on rent...
...store which 27-year-old James Cash Penney started 47 years ago in the mining town of Kemmerer, Wyo. (pop. 1,000). Young Penney, frail and ailing, had gone West for his health from Hamilton, Mo., where he grew up in poverty on the farm of his father, an unpaid Baptist preacher. From the age of eight, young J.C. had to buy his own clothes; at 19 heard his dying father murmur: "Jim will make it. I like the way he has started...
...Members of Parliament who act as unpaid wheelhorses for cabinet ministers and junior ministers. One of their chief duties is to answer members' inquiries at question time, which means that they frequently know more about ministry affairs than the ministers themselves. A post as P.P.S. is usually considered the first step toward ministerial rank...
Vincent R. Bertocci, Cammarata's lawyer, admitted yesterday that the Valeteria "is in pretty tough shape. The only assets they have are some unpaid bills," he said. "They're only one step away from bankruptcy," he added...
...best jokes are family jokes, jabbing aspects of the entertainment world that age has withered or custom staled. There is a lush spoof of a road-company opera that the unpaid musicians have walked out on; and opera done without music can be flayed without mercy. There is a tearful but cheerful lament by three washed-up queens of the silent films; above all, there is "The Gladiola Girl," a wonderfully funny, insanely accurate burlesque of a routine musical...