European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 27, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 20 the stars and stripes april 1977 Vanderbilt Cheddar and other bargain Hunting tales puffing on the Rich by John Corry new York times he most famous sentence Ever written about the aside from the one about the Camel passing through the Eye of the is this the very Rich Are different than you and to which the equally is they have More now whatever the truth about the it is absolutely unassailable today that they have bargains As much As anyone and that they have nothing against saving a we Are not talking Here about William Randolph Hearst using paper napkins at san Hunt carrying his lunch in a Brown paper or Paul Getty having pay phones in his House in London these were Only we Are talking about sometimes the Rich do this very the first time i met Mary Todhunter said a Semi Rich talking about a seriously Rich for was at one of those around that the philharmonic used to have i think it was in Rockefeller is a very Nice and at the end of the luncheon she excused her sell and said she had to 140 to Blooming Dales basement to do her Christmas shopping in Bloomin Vidales was a terrible i didst think anyone went 1 Learned something then from mrs what she the Semi Rich Jady was that it was Ull right to look for but that you had to have As much Money As Rockefeller before you could say you were looking for she people would say you were either at or i by on your the Semi Rich lady said thai now she often shopped on Delancey and Orchard streets on manhattans lower Kast and made occasional trips to Loehmann in the Bronx she also said she would rather not have people know this when the Semi Rich and presumably very Rich shop on the East Side they shop during the week and Early in the they also cat a big breakfast the places they shop at arc Rosenthals and Fine Alta ians and Friedlich have Many things with designers labels in although As often As not the labels have been Cut the Semi Rich usually know exactly what hey want when they shop at humans or and they ask for they do not cruise the which other women and sometimes they have newspaper advertisements by the stores Uptown in their they want exactly what the stares Uptown Are and when Icv have found it they leave the lower East Side As quickly As they the new York Rich save Money on liquor by buying by the then the store gives them one bottle Trade the Rich have never saved much on which is a Good thing because the being tastes better when you eat it in their the Rich dealt almost exclusively in Small neigh boyhood where they could run up charge a and where their butlers and Cooks could sometimes make a few Bucks for themselves when they did the now the Rich shop in where they must pay not that Many butlers and Cooks around there Are still Small neighbourhood stores on the East Side where the Rich still often by and there they run up charge a sometimes to great the other for a Butcher at 82d Street and Madison Avenue asked one of his Rich customers if she would please ask another of hut Rich customers to pay her sum the customer was following the English tradition of paving the tradespeople some of the Small East Side stores where the Rich or Well connected shop Are deceptive Torin on Lexington is a Small cluttered Gro Cery where you must step Over the delivery boxes on the last a Man went in there and said he wanted to buy some yellow Cheddar one of the Savarise Brothers the kind Vanderbilt the Man which Vanderbilt another Savaresy brother Down at his the Man saw a delivery Box marked and another marked Hei derided it didst and said that Cheddar would be by Irmo Bombick at wits end i have just figured out that i have spent a total of 23 four six twelve hours and Sev Enteen minutes looking for things around the House that Are Mil really i if i had spent that much time taking care of my face and body f could be a love goddess by the other morning As i Hung by my heels retrieving the innards of the Coffee pot from the garbage my Nus band in one of his rare moments of sentiment you have the instincts of a water you eventually find everything i dont know How you do Tell you now i do i it comes ram having Stup do kids who have thrown away the insides of the Coffee pot every Day for the last three years and from having a husband who sits in n chair and Donl gel just Tell me where my Dis charge from the army he you really should do a column shout Hes probably this is my formula for finding things around the House before they get Here is How it you must ask h i were an iced Tea spoon who wanted to get away for a few where would i hide then you Call on Small boys hate to take right they often drink their Orange juice from an old fashioned Glass just to be differ they have probably taken their cold syrup from an iced Tea the iced Tea spoon then is in the Medicine using this kind of the Odds Are very Good for finding the following is most often lost items in the following school shoes in a pair of tight tight boots in the school lost and baby pacifier in the dog Pencil without Lead by the under the car keys in the marriage License in the bookshelf under screwdriver in a Raincoat phone directory in the comb anywhere where it is surrounded by Tjie Hamster in a bedroom umbrella in the school lost to the car in the attic in a Box nativity scene and scissors in the Shoeshine kit in the Utility 2 i Tate tackle Box in the garage and 16 inches supporting a Tomato Plant in the Side Yard Tmur Tel if were m envelope and a stamp who hated where would i go let Ito reins