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Comedian Red Skelton, who shops there, calls Rodeo a "nice, friendly street ?but too expensive." But many Rodeo customers spend without even asking prices, sometimes because they do not speak English. Recently, a young Japanese rushed into Hermès, pointed in quick succession to a $1,000 lambskin jacket, an $850 suede coat, three silk robes at $700 each, five blouses at $350 apiece and many other goodies. While salespeople totaled all his purchases ($8,000), he dashed out to do more shopping. He returned shortly with new luggage to hold his purchases, then dashed off to catch...
...only spending less on their employees, but are extending the same parsimony to customers and suppliers. One division of a Chicago cosmetics manufacturing firm used to give $40 and $50 pillows covered with the skins of tigers, zebras and foxes; this year it has switched to $15 lambskin rugs and chopped its gift list in half. A number of firms have decided that it is just as bad to receive as to give. Massachusetts based King's Department Stores has mailed letters to 7,000 suppliers asking that no gifts be offered to King employees. Macy's made...
...even he had to admit wryly was "perhaps Utopian." Egyptian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Riad's reply in the U.N. was an attack on the U.S. for adopting "a position of alignment with Israel and hostility toward the Arab people." Lebanon's Premier Rashid Karame declared: 'The lambskin that Israel has been hiding under is wearing out and showing the wolf underneath...
...instituted the use of shearling lambskin for the prevention of bedsores [March 9] at the Boston City Hospital in 1931. A few years later, I received a letter from one associate which quoted Hippocrates...
This is what BOLTER COMPANY, in the Square, calls the all around gift, and with good reason. These slippers can be given to mother, dad, sister, sweetheart, brother, roommate, or anyone, and will be appropriate. They are Topps lambs wool, with the lambs-wool in the inside and soft lambskin on the outside. They are light weight, warm, and comforting to any worn foot. Bolter also has a store at 15 Milk Street in Boston...