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Los Angeles, which got off fairly well after Thanksgiving, then had a bad slump when mid-December turned unseasonably hot, finally got a bit of brisk weather. Shoppers surged into the stores in such numbers that some places reported sales 10% above 1957. What made merchants everywhere particularly happy was...
Stores turned to the January white sales and seasonal clearances with inventories lower and spirits higher than in years. The brightest post-Christmas promotion was put on by Dallas' A. Harris & Co. For one day, it announced it would take back any "Christmas gift which doesn't fit...
Some other 1958 symbols of plenty: $1.6 billion for jewelry, $280 million for furs, $20.1 billion on travel and $2.1 billion for that growing U.S. hobby, boating. If his fancy was tickled, the U.S. consumer could even be tempted into buying 30 million hula hoops.
Crocodiles & Tourists. Though an ardent supporter of Catholic Action and the Demo-Christian Party, Cardinal Roncalli won the admiration of many a Venetian leftist for his progressive outlook. He shocked conservatives by proposing that some marble panels be removed from the interior of St. Mark's to give worshipers...
Straining Men's Energies. From the start British Columbia has strained men's energies. The first Briton to land there, Captain James Cook, put in at Nootka Sound in 1778 to gaze at the stands of tall timber, the schools of ocean salmon and herds of sea otter...