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...decline as a Hemingway hero should have. Papa grew increasingly gaunt and anxious in his last months. He got upset over trifles, worried that an airline would not accept him with excess baggage, despaired because he was sure he could not pick up his guns at Abercrombie & Fitch after his lawyer had neglected to pay a bill. Gradually, he began to believe that he was being followed by Government agents and that his family and friends had somehow betrayed...
...guys are taking it-every chance they have. Sportswriters, stockbrokers and admen are playing Pro Quarterback. College and high school coaches are using it to teach sound signal calling to their quarterbacks. Manhattan's Abercrombie & Fitch sold $32,000 worth (at $8.50 per game) in the three weeks before Christmas alone...
...Bill. The complaint department is no longer the cartoonist's delight. Manhattan's Abercrombie & Fitch now rotates complaint-desk personnel to prevent them from getting too offensively defensive. This fall, Montgomery Ward for the first time established customer-relations managers in its nine catalogue territories to handle complaints in the rich and rising field of telephone orders. In Atlanta, President Rolland A. Maxwell of Davison's department store answers letters of complaint personally. President Milton...
...fact, furriers are using everything short of their own hides - Russian fitch, French rabbit, Algerian sand rat, Polish pony, Australian kangaroo and Wyoming buffalo. And they are handling the animal skins like fabric, tailoring them into haute couture shapes, cutting them into culottes, evening gowns and leggings. Taking even greater lib erties, the furriers are dyeing skins col ors nature never dreamed of, and in patterns taken right off the walls of an Op-Pop gallery. The fun furs are for secretaries who want the feel of fur without the financial pinch of mink and for two-mink socialites...
...cockpit, Captain Kimes felt "a severe shudder," accompanied by the muffled roar of an explosion. His eyes swept the instrument panel in front of him, stopped at the altimeter, which showed 700 ft. and climbing. At the same moment, Flight Engineer Fitch Robertson called out: "We have lost power on No. 4," meaning the right outboard engine of the plane's four fan jets. As Kimes reached for his controls, the huge jet yawed wildly to the right. A fire-alarm bell sounded, and a red warning light flashed on the instrument panel, indicating that No. 4 engine...