Word: pushcarts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Newspaper readers sometimes get the impression that lost masterpieces of art turn up continually, and that any old-looking picture in the attic or at an auction may be worth a fortune. The day-after fact: the typical news story about the Rembrandt that Aunt Sophie found in a pushcart usually comes unglued just a few days after it has been front-paged, but by then, it is no longer news. Contributing to the confusion is the fact that art experts generally refuse to challenge such stories, for fear of libel suits. Result: gullible collectors spend thousands each year purchasing...
...girl takes off for a day of carnival fun, and Papa is instructed to take the boy to a match de football. Reason for the outing is that Mama feels her first labor pains coming on, and since the boy still thinks that babies are bought from pushcart peddlers, it is prudent to post him elsewhere. In a scene of superb comic tenderness, Papa attempts to explain where children really come from, and bears up just fine until his relentlessly inquisitive child asks: "But, Papa, where do you plant the seed...
...house shill, lures him to the roulette table, and the cops raid the joint. Poor Papa is booked at the station, and the boy must run home to fetch his identification card. From the sight of his mother in the midst of a difficult accouchement, the notion of the pushcart peddler is banished. All that remains for the boy to do is get Mama to the hospital, spring Papa from the jug, and reunite the whole gang in time for the birth of baby sister...
...open-air pushcart markets of New York will soon be extinct, according to Markets Commissioner Masciarelli. As a part of Mayor Wagner's economy drive, curbside vending, which costs the City more than it brings in, is to be eliminated...
...along with the Third Avenue "El" and Lincoln Square, this world is to yield to progress. But it will take longer to vanquish the hurdy-gurdy spirit of the pushcart markets, Robert Moses notwithstanding...