Word: proprietor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...find out what's there or I'll know the reason why," stormed Glen Cove's mayor when Stanco made his report. "We'll take it up with the United Nations direct." Glen Cove's people said nothing. "They come," a candy-store proprietor told a reporter of his Russian customers, "they buy, and they go. But don't use my name or my address. With the world situation the way it is, you never can tell...
...like this," explained Giro's Proprietor Herman Hover last week, adjusting his hand-painted cravat (tropical birds). "You've got to get a room jumping. You've got to fill it with hep people. If you haven't got a jumpy room, you haven't got a Hollywood nightclub...
Craggy, weather-beaten Claude L. (for Lafayette) Fallwell had lived a full life, and he wanted a full epitaph. Now past 70, he had crossed the country in a covered wagon, been cowboy, cook, farmer, fruitgrower, preacher and proprietor of a farmers' market. Fallwell ambled down to the La Grande (Ore.) Evening Observer (circ. 3,700) and asked how much it would cost to buy enough space to tell his whole story. He finally settled for a two-column want-ad a week, at $15 for each...
Blonde Mrs. Dorothy Lawlor, who had advertised her willingness to marry any man for $10,000 (TIME, June 7), made her choice. It was Dan Wicker, 33, proprietor of Danny's Musical Bar in Daytona Beach, Fla. The clincher had been a telegram from Danny: "Is you is, or is you ain't gonna be my baby?" Sighed Dorothy: "How could I resist a guy with a sense of humor like that...
...size. At Southgate, Ky., just across the river from Cincinnati, the other kids told him that he was too small to play baseball. At ten, as a caddy at the Highland Country Club, he took such a shine to the game that his father, Patsy Arcaro, the comfortably fixed proprietor of a china store, thought he had a golfer in the family. One of Eddie's best clients was Tom McCaffery, a crotchety race horse owner...