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...minds whether this meant Tiffany & Co. The answer is: It was not Tiffany & Co." Last week, in identically worded ads that appeared side by side in the Times, Van Cleef & Arpels and Carter assured "our patrons and friends that we are not the jewelry concern in question." Black Starr & Gorham followed with a "not me" ad in the Times. The Times's Advertising Columnist Robert Alden reported that the jewelry buyer was Prince Sadruddin Khan, half brother of Aly Khan and uncle of the new Aga Khan. Though other New York jewelers know the name of the seller...
...buyers bought up everything they could get their hands on, but they showed a penchant for luxury goods, ranging from Tiffany & Co.'s gold martini mixer ($2,000) and Black, Starr & Gorham's gold tea set ($30,000) to Lord & Taylor's Hong Kong silk lounging pajamas ($79.95) and gold-plated toothbrushes ($5). "Anything with a gimmick sells very well," said Dominic Tampone, president of Manhattan's Hammacher Schlemmer: "This always happens in a high economy. You give a person something he wouldn't normally buy for himself...
Bibles & Attendance. Outside the Garden, the impact of the crusade is harder to assess. One index-Bible sales-is inconclusive; a few bookstores (Morehouse-Gorham, religious booksellers whom Graham recommends; Calvary Bookstore, near the Garden; and Doubleday) report a small increase, others none...
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...Odds-Makers. A World War I marine, sometime law student and businessman (lighting fixtures), Leo Hirschfield in 1940 bought out Minneapolis' Gorham Press, which published a weekly football record. Under its new name, the press now puts out schedules and record books, covering basketball, football and baseball. And it operates a daily oddsmaking service for clients (who pay up to $25 a week), gives the line by phone on college and National Football League games, college and National Basketball Association games, quotes the day's prices on baseball games in both major and minor leagues...