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Peter K. Grimes had neither the cloak, the dagger nor the devil-may-care air of a scarlet pimpernel. A Boston travel agent, Harvardman Grimes, 32, married a German war widow who had come to the U.S. to study at Columbia University. His wife Irmgard had left her two young...
Twice, the Grimeses went to Germany to get the children, but Mrs. Grimes's father, an oldtime Communist and smalltown Red official named Paul Schroeder, would not surrender the girls to "capitalist America." "The future belongs to Communism," insisted Schroeder. "Why don't you stay here...
So Grimes quit his job, got a Communist visa for ten days, registered with the U.S. consulate in Berlin, then went with Irmgard to the Schroeder home in Nassenheide, 25 miles north of Berlin. Evelyn, 11, and Monica, 14, knew only two American phrases-"Nuts" and a clumsy version of...
O.S.S. for O.G.G.s. To get in step with the trend towards supermarkets, Don Grimes in 1946 set about making complete food markets of I.G.A. stores. Serving what he calls "one-grocer gals" (i.e. housewives who do all their marketing in one place) required "one-stop stores" and "onesource suppliers." He...
I.G.A. offers a member so many services, says Grimes, that "all the grocer has to do is unlock the front door and exercise his gifts as a salesman, a likable guy and a square businessman." Says successful Grocer Garofalo: "I've got supervision and store planning and help. I...