After quitting to bum around the country with his guitar and backpack, Chaikin landed in Boston and found a job as a writer with Sky and Telescope magazine.
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A 1919 novel compared a war zone to the free lunch experience by saying " the shells and shrapnels was flyin round and over our heads thicker than hungry bums around a free lunch counter ."
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But like Buffett himself, who used to bum around Duval Street in thrift store duds but now boasts his own clothing line and a chain of restaurants ( not to mention a truckload of platinum albums ), the island has gone legit in many ways.