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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Four Anterooms. Pyongyang may have a Korean name, but it was a Russian-run city. In every house, shop and office hang pictures of Stalin and Lenin. The biggest hotel in Pyongyang is known simply as "the Russian hotel." For two full blocks around the Russian embassy in Pyongyang every house is a Russian house. On the city's main thoroughfare the Russians maintained their own commissary, a steel-shuttered building crammed with excellent wines, vodkas, caviar and cosmetics. In the embassy itself we found expensive radios and photographic equipment, heavy silver ashtrays and a completely cooked meal which...
Managers of state-owned clothing shops displayed mannikins dressed in the jampec style, along with the warning that "everybody who imitates this American fashion madness belongs to the capitalist U.S. in spirit." One shop window (see cut) showed a gorilla next to a jampec and a telegram from the Budapest zoo's monkey house protesting against the insult of comparing a jampec to one of their kind...
...Roxy Theater as the stage attraction (partly to reach new audiences), he turned half of his own $5,000-a-week salary over to the orchestra's pension fund. He lives alone in a small apartment half a block from Carnegie Hall, usually eats unceremoniously at a hamburger shop across the street...
...Illinois-born Les Hoffman started his career by going into business for himself in the '20s at Albion College, Michigan. His college tailor shop and cleaning concession did so well that "it took me quite a while to get used to the drop in income after I graduated." But it was not until 1939, after he had been everything from a lifeguard to a radio salesman on the West Coast, that he went into business for himself again, selling fluorescent lights in Los Angeles...
...Salesman Lee, who died in 1934, also ran his custom body-shop to turn out the gold-trim and other gewgaws fancied by filmdom's elite. Among them: a $50,000 body on a Rolls-Royce chassis for Comic Fatty Arbuckle...