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...winters ago, Edward C. McGrath, an enterprising snow-shoe manufacturer devised a plan for introducing the sport to the college set. After covering the rims of the shoes with strips of white buckskin, McGrath placed the white snow-shoe on the market. The idea caught on quickly and shoes may be ordered by that name today...
Americans had done jobs as marvelous as the Berlin air lift before. Take the time Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox dug the St. Lawrence River in three weeks. When Billy Pilgrim tried to make it tough for Babe by wetting and stretching the buckskin ropes attached to the scoop shovel, Babe just sat down until the sun came out and dried the ropes. As they dried they shrank, and pulled that scoop for miles & miles up to Babe. And there was the St. Lawrence, practically...
Members of the Harvard Ski Club doffed their seersucker jackets and white buckskin shoes last Sunday to beat Dartmouth's Indians in the annual Harvard-Dartmouth slalom...
...Everglades as the U.S.'s 28th (and eleventh largest) national park. At the tiny (pop. 600) fishing town of Everglades City, he was welcomed by an enthusiastic, pushing crowd of 4,500. A group of Seminole Indians presented him with a rainbow-colored shirt, and a buckskin bag to take to Bess. He stopped to chat with some sponge fishermen, got two sponges as souvenirs...
...Courtley, Ltd. said gruffly: "A shaving lotion for he-men only." (But Manhattan's Faberge, Inc. was selling a cologne: "Aphrodisia for Men.") Courtley Ltd.'s bubble baths had ruddy, full-blooded titles: "Chukker," "Steeple Chase," "Irish Moss." Parfums L'Orle Inc. of Manhattan had "Buckskin" and "Touchwood" perfumes ("Just for your handkerchief, of course") at $5 an ounce. Another managed to combine the smell of "the finest cognac, cedarwood, Russian leather and the great outdoors...