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...Purdy-Rouse plan was simple. A dunned, garnisheed, bill-racked client turned his paycheck over to their Credit Adjustment Co. or had his employer mail it to them. Then he signed a pledge not to contract any more debts without C.A.C. approval, and agreed to live on what it doled out. C.A.C. then prorated the rest of the client's pay among creditors...
...Typical Boggs client is a doctor whose collections averaged around 50% of what was owed him and whose income, never over $5,000, had dropped to $3,600. Boggs found that the man did not even know the full names of many of his patients, nor what they owed him. He needed a rest, but did not dare take a two-week vacation for fear of losing income and patients. Boggs made him go away for a month, sent out handsome engraved announcements saying why the doctor had gone and when he would be back. On his return, the doctor...
...happens to run into her, and the pseudo-psychic predicts they will come together. Milland doesn't know Paulette is the fortune-teller, however, and she plays a double role: as the fortune-teller and as a gay young immigrant from Texas. Naturally, there's a third woman, a client of Mr. Milland (a counsellor whose clients are all beautiful women without trouble) and she tries to botch up matters between the two stars. This little vixen is disposed of in the usual manner and Miss Goddard and Mr. Milland live together happily ever after. What happens to Milland...
...client was pronounced dead and Jimmy collected his fee, $100. The aftermath: next day Jimmy was picked up on a drunk-and-disorderly charge. He posted a $10 bond, which he forfeited. His drunks usually follow each service to a client and Jimmy laments the fact that he almost never gets more than $90 cash out of a visit because of the bonds he forfeits...
When sober, Jimmy is proud of his ability to usher out clients neatly. "I just seem to have a talent for this sort of thing," he says to those who visit his chair on public exhibition outside the State capital at Jackson. "Maybe it's because I'm always polite. The first thing I tell a client to put him at ease is 'Have a seat...