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Peanut Eater. The personal attention he gives his customers helps Nudie gross $300,000 a year with his high-class ranch wear. Not only does he dress 80% of all movie and TV western stars; he also rakes in three-quarters of the other tailor-made western clothing business in the U.S. Says he: "This is a far cry from P.S. 156 in Brooklyn." It is so far that Nudie, now 56, is the only person who remembers his real name. Whatever it is, he guards it fanatically. He is Nudie, even on his checks...
...quest for big game has spread from northern Uganda to southern Tanganyika. The white hunters who lead safaris are making more money than ever-$7,000 a year is average and $14,000 is not uncommon for the popular hunters. Luxury is at an alltime high too. Today no high-class safari leaves Nairobi without comforts that range from a special scout car for the client and his white hunter to five-ton trucks that haul the amenities of gracious living-tents, radios, refrigerators, portable showers and toilets...
...High-Class Haggling. But Dr. Cross had bigger game in mind. Earlier in the year, while dickering for fragments on behalf of Chicago's McCormick Theological Seminary with the Syrian cobbler Kando, who is unofficial middleman between the Bedouins and the scholars, Cross and his fellow scholars had been offered an exceptionally large piece from Cave 4 for $12,000. An old hand at the Bedouin bargaining table, the scholars began making counteroffers. Finally, last summer, during the height of the Middle East crisis, Cross and Jordanian Curator Yusuf Saad of the Palestine Archaeological Museum sat down with Kando...
...when local merchants pressed the city to do something drastic for the slum area. It took until 1952 for the city to condemn the land and put it up for sale, but no builders would buy, because the city's plans for the project seemed too high-class for the moderate rents it wanted to charge. Finally, in 1954, a group of citizens, ranging from Henry Ford to the U.A.W.'s Walter Reuther, obtained a 90-day option. With James W. Bell, Detroit City Planner, as coordinator, the group raised $450,000 in loans, set itself a high...
This new role will come as something of a change for him, as his previous association with the Faculty Club represented a much more sedate and gastronomically high-class position...