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Salmon-Skin Leather. Shoes, handbags, wallets and belts made of salmon skins will go on sale in Manhattan shoe stores this fall. Tanned by a process developed by Tidewater Laboratories, of Bellingham, Wash., salmon-skin leather looks much like cobra skin, is seven times as strong as good calfskin, and can be bleached and dyed any color...
...metronome. At home in Houston, she issues household instructions to her domestic staff at weekly meetings. A fitful sleeper, she keeps a notebook on her bedside table, makes frequent midnight notes on her "planned life." Her office appointments are lined up on a conveyor-belt schedule. Her double-handled calfskin bag, which she carries everywhere, is a special efficiency container which she designed for her business papers, her purse, and a Book of Common Prayer...
Among the more than 1,000 types of Italian imports on sale were everything from umbrellas and Provolone cheese to calfskin pocketbooks and Chianti. Macy's, working with the Italian government, scoured Italy for products it could sell in the U.S., tagged the affair Italy's "second Renaissance," invited other stores to set up their own foreign-trade fairs...
Queen Eleanor, whose domestic difficulties resulted in the convent's foundation, still lay in her royal robes, her hand still covered by a white calfskin glove embroidered in green silk. From other tombs came exquisite brocade bonnets. The colors of the silks were as bright as though dyed yesterday. There was even a bunch of tiny withered roses, a token of personal tenderness 700 years...
...that all the citizens of resurrected Warren might benefit. They would turn it to furniture for a public building. Cabinetmaker Groot Landeweer thought a sturdy oak chair carved with Borculo's coat of arms would make a good item. Parchmentmaker Nathan Elzas put aside a particularly fine calfskin. That, he was certain, could be turned into several lampshades that would be just right for Warren...