BOWERY PEARLS
Because Princess Elizabeth wore pearls on her wedding dress, a new day is dawning for ,th« tramps of the Bowery, New York’s doss-house alley. Twenty-five years ago Ralph Kahn, down and out, tramping the Bowery, asked a stranger for the price of a cup of coffee. The stranger handed Kahn four strands of artificial pearls and said: “Try your luck selling these." Kahn sold them so easily he decided he could make a business of it. Today he has a suite at the Waldorf. At a sales conference he was told that his business faces its biggest boom. America is mad about pearls, because Princess Elizabeth wore them. Kahn went back to the Bowery and paid down £5OOO, his estimate of his extra profit because of the pearls boom, for a super doss-house. Princess Elizabeth did it, he said.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 30 December 1947, Page 7
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