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...tuned them to the 20th Century by coating them with copper, rust and gold lacquers. Other Florell eye openers: one-foot-square feather muffs; a single feather-covered glove, worn shoulder length. That was enough to get Manhattan's Murray Sears, big U.S. feather merchant, to book passage to South Africa last week to buy up all the fine feathers he could find. Predicted Sears: "A big year for the ostrich...
...Grand Peregrination, by Maurice Collis. The 16th Century travels of the Marco Polo-like Portuguese, Fernao Mendes Pinto, whose Far East adventures cast him as soldier, merchant, pirate, slave, ambassador and Jesuit novice (TIME, March...
Most of the funds for Holmes Hall will come from the bequest of the late Georgine Holmes Thomas who requested the building be named after her father, Daniel Henry Holmes, a leading merchant of Cincinnati and New York. The College plans to raise $250,000, the remainder of the estimated $750,000 cost, while the dormitory is under construction...
George Curtis Quick, ladybug merchant of Phoenix, Ariz., was as busy last week as any of his bugs. Orders were flooding in from all over the country. An Oklahoma farmer ordered 1,000 gallons of bugs (135,000 bugs per gal.). A group in the Texas Panhandle wanted all that "Pappy" Quick could supply. The price: $7.50 per gal., in lots of ten gallons or more...
...resolved to join the army and, once in the East, switch to trading. In 1537, at the age of 28, he sailed for Goa, Portugal's main outpost in India. Before he saw Portugal again, he was to visit all the lands of Asia, to be a merchant, a pirate, a slave, an ambassador and a Jesuit novice...