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This Easter week, in a custom 438 years old, elderly men and women will trudge up the creaky staircase to the auditor's office to pay their annual rent. It is one of the world's real housing bargains. The annual rent is still what Jakob Fugger decreed it to be 400 years ago: the equivalent of one Rhenish guilder...
...sister of Prince Akihito, had no objections. Some time this fall, the imperial household announced, Suga will wed a childhood friend, gangly Hisanaga Shimazu, 25. bank clerk, scion of a blue-blooded family and a classmate of Akihito's at the Gakushuin (Peers' School). According to custom. Hisanaga had called on his future father-in-law, who will build the newlyweds a house and provide a $42,000 dowry. And what, asked newsmen, had the Emperor said? "He just asked me to take good care of his daughter...
Less than a year ago, the U.S. had such a glut of copper that the industry was asking for tariffs and subsidies. By last week copper supplies were, so tight that the price of copper was bobbing like a puppet. Custom smelters, who had been selling copper at 32? a lb., got out of the market for a week, came back at 34?-a lb. Major producers were selling copper at 31? a lb., v. last year...
...Lilly Dache), the only milliner to win the Coty award, fashion world "Oscar." Her $55-to-$90 creations (up to $1,000 with fur or jewelry) soon reappear in pirated cheaper models; many a U.S. housewife will wear a Sally Victor design this Easter without knowing it. But her custom hats go first to such luminaries as Queen Elizabeth II, Eleanor Roosevelt, Betty Furness, Hollywood's Judy Garland and the Gabors. This week Designer Victor went to Washington with Easter headgear for Longtime Customer Mamie Eisenhower, who wore a Sally Victor hat to the President's first inauguration...
Gordon M. Fair, Master of Dunster House, defended the two tutors to a table custom. 'Student-faculty relations are very good in our House; if everyone's system is like Dunster's there shouldn't be any trouble," he said...