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Most days of the year the dusty market place in Benevento, 30 miles northeast of Naples, is crowded with hawkers vending cloth and shoes and fortunes. But on two days of the year (Aug. 15 and Sept. 8), the main commodity in Benevento's market is children...
...from Tunkhanock, Pa., and Exeter, Delmar Leighton was forced to leave in his sophomore years for service in France. After discharge, he matriculated for six months and gained a degree in 1919. The first job he took was in a textile mill in Rhode Island, putting a gloss on cloth. Next he tried selling Addressograph machines, but soon hied back to Cambridge and the Business School...
...Faced with two halves of the same Camembert cheese, one carrying a bigger price tag than the other, French housewives "always" ("You hear me-always") ask for the more expensive piece. ¶Presented with both halves of the same bolt of cloth, customers not only buy the higher-priced half but actually invent reasons justifying the price difference...
Fabric is also a keynote this year. The ruling thought is to make wood look like cloth, cloth look like fur, and fur look like fabric. Dacron has coped the crown from rayon, nylon, et al. Poodle cloth is indistinguishable from persian lamb, and the glittering sheen of furs resembles satin more than sable...
...from Tunkhanock, Pa., and Exeter, Delmar Leighton was forced to leave in his sophomore years for service in France. After discharge, he matriculated for six months and gained a degree in 1919. The first job he took was in a textile mill in Rhode Island, putting a gloss on cloth. Next he tried selling Addressograph machines, but soon hied back to Cambridge and the Business School...