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...yourself" fad that has gripped U.S. homeowners is leaving a good many of them in need of fixing. The American Mutual Liability Insurance Co. announced that some 630,000 people suffer disabling injuries every year while engaged in home repair work...
...before Henry Ford started mass-producing autos, Eastman was manufacturing cameras by the thousands, and film by the hundreds of miles. Price of the first Kodak, $25, with a $10 charge for developing, and reloading. Twelve years later, Eastman produced a "Brownie" for $1. Photography became a major U.S. fad. "Detective cameras" were disguised as ladies' handbags, muffs, briefcases. President Grover Cleveland delightedly used his Kodak all day long on a fishing trip, was dismayed to learn in the evening that he should have wound the film. The Pink Lady, a 1911 musical, had a song...
Updike's, too, is a bit of prose entitled "The Fading of the Fad." It is not good. Faddism is too old a topic to survive any but the best treatment. It does not receive...
...balanced contraptions of wood, metal or plastic have been suspended in the more modern-minded museums. Until recently, hardly anyone thought of these dangling doodles as suitable for the living room. But this year, with artists designing mobiles for commercial production, they seem to be growing into a national fad. A whole new minor industry is turning out thousands every day, from $1 up. Among the more interesting...
...Beacon Hill's population increased, Louisburg Square suffered a constant, if mild invasion of its private property. Contemptuous gas buggies parked in the space that was reserved for Louisburg residents. The residents were forced to recognize the new motor fad and resignedly hired a policeman to ticket illegal parkers. At times the trespassers have proved so numerous that the Proprietors have put up gates across each end of the Square to keep out inquisitive Boston...