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...Sakowitz sold one day with Peter Duchin at $3,750 and eight three-day broncobusting lessons at $230 apiece...
Classy Gift What ordinary gifts the Sakowitz department store in Houston has to offer those who have everything...
...What Sakowitz does offer the doting donor is lessons in earthier arts that are certain to make the recipient the cocktail-party one-upsman (or woman) of 1975. How many of the gang, for example, will be able to boast of a day's skiing with coaching by Jean-Claude Killy at Val d'Isere, France (for a mere $4,325, not including travel and accommodations)? For the price of an airline ticket to California, plus board and meals, plus $115,000, the gift recipient can take ten private swimming lessons with Mark Spitz. Want...
...Houston. Tennis, anyone? The Wise Man is John Newcombe, the venue near San Antonio, the price $8,650 for a day. You dream of winning the Kentucky Derby? For a mere $5,750, Top Jockey Mary Bacon will help steer equestrian Mittys toward the winner's circle. Sakowitz's least expensive offering is the three-day bronc-buster or bull-rider clinic chaired by Larry Mahan of Mesquite, Texas, which costs $230 and includes bunk and beans. Bring your own accident insurance...
...more aesthetic areas, the Sakowitz catalogue vends a day's guitar lessons with Jose Feliciano ($14,500), an ivory day with Peter Duchin at the piano ($3,750), drumming with Buddy Rich ($5,250) and two "Lessons in Conversation" with Truman Capote, lisped at $3,000. There is also a one-day grounding in economics with doom-crying Economic Forecaster Eliot Janeway, whose price ($2,875) would suggest emigration rather than investment...