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...tall man with a $10 bill in his hand stood surveying an apple vendor's stand on Detroit's Woodward Avenue one day last week. "It's a shame," he said, "that an apple won't fit a pay telephone. I've been trying to call my wife since last night to tell her I wouldn't be home." After he explained that he was unable to get his bill changed anywhere in Detroit, the apple vendor loaned him a nickel...
...look like a detective. He kept it because he was neither venal nor lazy. When his fellow agents were reporting for work. Izzy would appear with a dozen prisoners. His industry, affability and ingenious disguises made and kept him headline news. Some of his makeups: Negro, Italian fruit-vendor, iceman, longshoreman, gasfitter, judge. Cornell undergraduate, streetcar conductor, carpenter, trombone-player (when demonstrating his ability he played ''How Dry I Am"). Once he was admitted to a speakeasy on the strength of being a Prohibition agent; the barkeeper thought it was a good joke till Izzy arrested him. When...
...White's vendor was its chairman, Robert Winship Woodruff, 42. Mr. W'oodruff became Atlanta's biggest businessman in 1923 when he resigned as vice president and general manager of Cleveland's White Motor Co. to become president of Atlanta's Coca-Cola Co. Although from 1923 to 1929 President Woodruff devoted his working hours to Coca-Cola (sales went from $24,000,000 to $39,000,000), he remained a director of White and so close a friend of the late Walter Charles White that a type of dual management almost existed between the two companies. When...
...Derby, Conn., Joe Soda, vendor of soft drinks, was arrested for violating the liquor...
Artist Epstein, who has taken the name Abner Dean, made the Roosevelt mask. A doll was bought from Macy's. Christmas pies being out of season, a strawberry pie was substituted and a plum from an unemployed fruit vendor. At the plant of Powers Engraving Co. the group was posed against a yellow cardboard background before a color camera. Four exposures were made, one for each cardinal color, one for the black, upon transparent plates. The four plates, exactly superimposed, gave the result. Because the printer wanted to brighten the purple plum by reducing the blue, it came...