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Another thing nobody thought of was a buy-it-as-you-see-it fashion show. In August, Ohama, 34, threw Japan's largest fashion event to date, the Tokyo Girls Collection. The 12,600 attendees?and 15 million people watching the live cell-phone broadcast???could purchase items on their phones as soon as they appeared on the catwalk. Shin Akamatsu launched his Joias line at the festival and received more orders than the established labels did. "We struck gold right from the beginning," says the creative director, who saw $4.2 million in sales in five months. Other brands plan...
...traditional benediction, urbi et orbi (to the city and to the world). His high voice quavered a bit as he chanted the Latin in lilting Gregorian style. Before the blessing, the new Pope made an unusual gesture, granting "to all" who heard the words?either in person or by broadcast???a plenary indulgence. In Catholic belief, all sins, though forgiven, must be atoned for?either here on earth or, after death, in purgatory. For those truly repentant, a plenary indulgence cancels the debt for all past sins...
...Herbert Hoover Jr., convalescing at Asheville, N. C. President Hoover talked briefly with his son and Granddaughter Peggy Anne, who chirped: ''It's snowing here. We're going back to Washington tomorrow." (Next evening he could have tuned in to hear his wife's voice in her Unemployment broadcast?...
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