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...Hy Sampson is one of these hypnotists. He has left the stage and used his skills for what he believes is a more constructive...
...Hy Sampson did not always limit his activities to serious hypnosis. He was on the stage until about 15 years ago, when Sampson said his life changed dramatically. One night he signed to do a performance for a local charity drive for the "Ship Hope" project. "I was told to put the whole audience to sleep so that the ushers could have a look through everyone's wallets--for a good cause of course," he adds. "It was after the M.C. thanked him personally that Sampson suddenly realized that hypnosis could be used for productive ends, beyond entertaining the rich...
Perpetual Discontent. Only one craftsman could work on the kimono since, as Textile Historian Nishimura Hyōbu remarks in the catalogue notes, "a change of workers - or even a brief illness - could result in an irreparable alteration of the rhythm of the tying and the evenness of the results." The knots took more than a year to tie and another year to undo, one by one. Because the process cost so much, the making of sō-hitta was outlawed by the Japanese sumptuary laws of 1683, which attempted to control extravagance in clothing. But the tie-dyed kimono...
...they had better hang easy and adjust to it. From 8 to 10 million more CB sets will be sold in 1976, which with extra equipment could amount to some $2.5 billion worth-nearly as much as total sales of TV sets. One of the biggest manufacturers, Hy-Gain Electronics Corp. (maker of Betty Ford's rig), reported that 1976 first-quarter sales quintupled those for the same period in 1975. A $2.95 paperback CB dictionary has sold more than a quarter of a million copies. "CB Land," as enthusiasts call it, is served by a babel of newspapers...
TREASURY OF AMERICAN DESIGN hy Clarence P. Hornung. Introduction by Holger Cahill. 2 vols., 846 pages. Abrams. $42.50. In the autumn of 1935, the U.S. Government launched another of its many projects to relieve Depression unemployment. This time the target of its aid was the commercial artist, 300 of whom were put to work rendering some of the finest examples of native American decorative art. Over 17,000 drawings were made, and in 1950 The Index of American Design was published, using a scant 3% of these illustrations. Now the Index has been expanded into two handsome volumes that touch...