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Article: HE'S CREATED BIG BUSINESS OUT OF TRIMMING THE TREE.(Living)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- December 16, 2005
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Byline: David Segal The Washington Post
NEW YORK -- In his red velvet Valentino sport jacket and black Valentino shirt, Christopher Radko could pass for the U.N. ambassador to Christmas, if there were such a job. It's Saturday afternoon and he is walking through the fifth floor of Bloomingdale's in midtown Manhattan, where a line of 60 or 70 shoppers has formed. It starts near a mahogany table and snakes down a hallway.
"Are you people waiting for Christopher Radko?" he trills playfully as he approaches. "Well, I'm him!"
Radko ducks under a rope line, and heads to the table.
"On the count of three, I want everyone to shout 'Merry Christmas,' OK?" he hollers, ...