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Nathanson: Brown ink! We present them with a whole slew of marvelous ideas. Sealskin and alligator pens...
Oneekatualeeotae. By 1963, Eskimos were running 18 coops, shipping as far south as New York such marketable commodities as frozen char (a delicious fish that tastes like salmon), waterproof sealskin boots, Eskimo handicraft and art. In the Eskimos' own stores, delicacies that they canned themselves-muk-tuk (whale skin), corned and roasted seal meat, sweet-and-sour whale, walrus flippers vinaigrette-now move as briskly as canned ham loaf...
...year thereafter. It paid off. Originally published in two editions, selling at $6 and $10, Nelson eventually produced 122 editions with a variety of bindings, including a pulpit edition (price: $70 to $120) that sold 25,000 copies. One year the company bought the entire North American catch of sealskin for bindings, had to turn to water buffalo hide from India when that...
Watermarked Sealskin. The Oxford Annotated Bible: Revised Standard Version ($7.95 and $12.50) is, says Oxford University Press, "expected to fill an existing need for an edition of the RSV that will provide authoritative explanations of many points in the text." William Collins Sons & Co. is advertising the Collins Clear-Type Plantin Text RSV Bible, which features "four pages of full-color illustrated helps, a Biblical time chart in color, an entirely new collection of modern full-color photographs, and an eight-page, full-color selection of maps"-all for only $8.50 in the edition with "French Morocco Black Leather semi...
Lost Fingers. By the spring of 1884, the men of Cape Sabine were reduced to eating lichens, sealskin thongs and their own boots. The first to go were the very weak and the very strong. The weak simply gave up; the strong overtaxed themselves in trying to save all. One man was brought back from a hunt with his eyelids frozen tight; he was so badly frostbitten that his fingers and feet fell off. Dependable Canadian-born Sergeant George Rice died of exhaustion in a three-day blizzard...