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...huge and costly property, the discounters moved out to where the housewives and buyers were, catered to the car-borne family trade by providing huge parking lots, kept night hours, and sold on Sundays. The typical discount center became part supermarket, part department store, part carnival. (The pretzel vendor who operates in front of Korvette's discount center in Westbury, Long Island, pays Korvette $800 a month rent.) Even when the department stores began opening more and more suburban branches, the discounters continued to prosper...
...Once the weekend is over, an enlargement of Sister balancing on Eagle Rock is made easier by the Instant Photo Vendor, introduced by Quik-Chek Electronics and Photo Corp. The customer places his negative (from 35 mm. to size 120 roll-film) under a glass cover, sets the opening of the enlarging lens according to a number indicated by a built-in exposure meter, and puts a coin in the slot. In 15 seconds, out comes a black-and-white glossy blowup, practically dry. Enlargements four times the negative size can be made. Price per picture...
...Rain. Suddenly Sophia Loren was a star. Mouthing Verdi while Renata Tebaldi's voice was fed into the sound track, she became a voluptuous, musky Aïda. And in Gold of Naples, the picture that spread her reputation across continents and seas, she played a Neapolitan pizza vendor's wife whose wonderful, self-congratulating look seemed to say: "Look at me. I'm all woman, and it will be a long time before you see such a woman again." She took a long, unforgettable walk in the rain through the streets of the city, drinking...
Groucho, Harpo, and Chico romp through A Day at the Races full speed ahead, leaving behind a trail of devastated buildings, befuddled police officers, and shattered pianos. Groucho is cast as a horse doctor in disguise, Harpo as a jockey, and Chico as an ice cream vendor, but all this is merely an excuse for them to get together and start wrecking the place. It is a foregone conclusion that Harpo will ride the horse to victory and save the sanatorium of which Groucho has become chief of staff...
Television has its faults as an advertising medium, said Cone. Its aim is indiscriminate and low. But the newcomer also has some distinct virtues as a vendor. "There are certain areas in advertising and selling where the sheer size of its audience, combined with the low cost of reaching it, makes television an almost mandatory medium." Certainly, no other medium can do a better job in peddling kitchen scouring pads-a job that Cone's agency gave to Gertrude (Molly Goldberg) Berg: "Who, except the makers, wants to argue the merits of competitive brands? This is where television...