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THELONIOUS MONK'S JACKET This custom-made smoking jacket with velvet lapels was one of Monk's favorites onstage and off. (Also for sale: his 1933 school notebook.) Estimate...
LIONEL HAMPTON'S VIBRAPHONE Originally a drummer, Hampton first experimented with the instrument during a 1930 studio session with Louis Armstrong. This is his custom-made brass model. Estimate...
...Mantegna), his brother’s son, and what he finds is far from his expectations: random strangers don’t like being accosted by random old men who offer them a bite of their salami…apparently that’s just not an American custom...
...surface, it’s a brilliant idea. One of the many civilized and enlightened customs of this university. And who is not seduced by the perfectly pressed tablecloths, the sparkling glasses and plates, each set with care, the silverware correctly arranged? On a board to the side shine bottles of red and white wine. The atmosphere is festive, the dining hall we know as a humble, daily stage of our lives is transformed. Really, the effort that Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) puts into each semester’s student-faculty dinner is quite unbelievable. And it pays...
...office photocopying. Kodak's machines can be 40 ft. long and cost from $11,000 to $5.5 million. Its pricey Versamark, for example, produces color prints in huge volume--at a rate of 1,000 ft. per minute. The magic: digital technology makes it possible to economically print custom copies of anything at almost any volume--books, flyers, bills. "It's a reasonable thing for Kodak to do," says Jack Kelly, an analyst with Goldman Sachs. "The competition isn't as vicious." Barbara Pellow, chief marketing officer of Kodak's Graphic Communications Group, points out that the customers Kodak will...