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Definition. In Rochester, England, the city food-control committee decided not to prosecute a food vendor when it learned from the Ministry of Food that "meat pies aren't required to contain any meat...
Radcliffe dorm students will welcome a sandwich and milk vendor on their doorsteps tonight when Ellis French '48 starts a dorm to dorm snack-selling route at Cabot Hall at 8:30 p.m. French will offer hungry 'Cliffe girls a choice of four kinds of sandwiches five nights a week...
Larger audiences were hardly better. Bauer remembers being unnerved at one U.S. concert by a vendor's cries of "Peanuts! Popcorn!" Once, in Boston, he suddenly felt that no one was listening to him: the audience had spotted Paderewski in the hall. Another time, on his way to the concert, he was accosted by a Salvation Army lassie who wanted him to give it all up. "Don't do it, brother!" she cried. "Don't lead those poor people into sin . . . with the arts of Satan...
...color of an Eric Ambler mystery. Tall, blond George Polk, whose pull-no-punches broadcasts had angered the Greek government,† had been trying to reach the hideout headquarters of Leftist General Markos to get the guerrilla side of the story. His "contact man" was apparently an Athens flower vendor, who visited Polk daily for ten days before his death-but in the treacherous climate of Athens, Polk had no way of making sure whether he was dealing with Right or Left...
...money and most of his papers were left on the body, as evidence that not robbery but "deliberate execution" was the motive. Then his identity card was mailed to the police. Still missing: Polk's notebook, his scarf, his favorite necktie (bright red and blue)-and the flower vendor...