Word: parchments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Parchment Scrolls. Dennis Haslinger, who sold mutual funds for Wallace Investments, Inc., in Cleveland, is now also marketing heraldic devices out of an old house that is a local historical monument. He starts with a direct-mail offer of family crests on a parchment scroll. When he gets a nibble -some status-starved customers eagerly order as many as 50 scrolls-he sends off a catalogue listing family-tree plaques, blazer crests and family histories. "Anyone with a name and $2 is my market," he says. "I've always wanted a business of my own. I couldn...
...breakfast with Singer, his wife, Rabbi Gold from Hillel House, and a friend who was cager to meet Singer, I realized why the author seemed so familiar. I.B. Singer looks like anybody's grandfather. His white, parchment-like skin stretched tightly over the bones of his skull contrasts sharply with his somber black suit. His head is smooth and round: only a few stray wisps of hair above the temples soften the sharp contours of his face. An clongated depression down the back of his skull reminds one of an infant's delicately shaped head. Singer radiates a childlike innocence...