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Page one: Bill Saunders beats up an ex-pugilist bouncer in a pub. Page two: the ex-pug is dead and Bill is chased through the streets of London. Page three: Bill breaks into a room to hide, finds there a pretty salesgirl named Jane, and spends the night with...
...worked as a waitress in Childs, in a sweatshop, as a nursemaid, a salesgirl, wardrobe mistress in a Minsky burlesque, and for 26 months "wrote, peddled, rewrote, repeddled, without so much as one word of encouragement." Then one day in 1912 she met Editor "Bob" Davis of Munsey's Magazine. " 'Fannie Hurst,' he said, after reading a story I came peddling, 'you can write!' " In the next 31 years she wrote 22 books...
...Angeles matron bought 16 dresses, four suits, three coats, the cheapest $69.95. One hefty customer grabbed a size-12 dress off a rack, told the salesgirl: "Yes, I'm too big for it, but I can always find someone to buy it from me if I can't have it altered...
...counters; they said wrap it up before they asked the price. In Cleveland, employes of Lincoln Electric Co. got bonuses averaging $3,000. In Beverly Hills, an uppity dowager surveyed the crowd in Saks's swank shop, asked: "Who are all these people?" Cracked the salesgirl: "They're cash customers...
...Philadelphia, were proud to snag exclusive sales rights to Rosenstein models that set them back 60-$300 apiece, wholesale.* During the '20s, when the best was supposed to come from Paris, U.S. dress makers sold these fancy models under their own labels -plus an awed whisper from salesgirl to cognoscenti that they were really "Rosenstein's" -but in due course the Rosenstein label became too valuable to hide. Today in Manhattan, she sells to three or four other shops, but rights to her label belong exclusively to Bonwit Teller...