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...Beyle ranged from Naples to Moscow (where he witnessed the city's famous burning and Napoleon's great defeat), but wherever he lived, his personal equation remained: love + work = happiness. He ran off to Marseille to live with an actress and be a banker, wound up a grocer and quickly broke with the "stupid" girl he had imagined was his ideal. He fell in love with the wife of one of Napoleon's leading officials, imagined that that old black magic was enchanting his inamorata, that "she looked at me as though I were a powder barrel...
...Flesh Is Weak. In Duluth, a gunman mailed back $60 of the $200 he had stolen from Grocer Ezzy Lebo, enclosed a note: "I have a tremendous conscience, but I also have a stomach that is bigger than my conscience...
Cheese It, the Cops. In National City, Calif., Mrs. Mary W. Kresky, charged with stealing 63?worth of cheese from a grocer, was acquitted after the evidence disappeared from the town's mouse-infested police headquarters...
...Pfister & Duttweiler. But Dutti's main career of cutting prices-and conventional corners -began in 1925. Just back from several years as a coffee-and sugar-plantation owner in Brazil, Duttweiler was shocked to discover that a planter netted less for his efforts in raising coffee than the grocer who merely handed it over the counter. To remedy that, Duttweiler invested his savings of $25,000 in five model T Ford trucks and a stock of rice, flour, sugar and other staples, sent the trucks through the streets of Zurich as traveling Migros stores. Dutti's prices averaged...
...LITTLE HORSE BUS, by Graham Greene (Lothrop; $2), carries its author far from his tortuous bypaths of sin and salvation. This is a sunny-spirited little brief for the old corner "grocer's shop" v. the Cellophane-wrapped modernity of a "Hygienic Emporium." A rickety but gallant old horse bus wins the day for tradition in a cops-and-robbers chase, while Illustrator Dorothy Craigie splashes each page with eye-catching color...