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...fancy and expensive ($3 a copy) trade quarterly, American Fabrics, also published by Reporter Publications. Gentry abounded in detachable inserts (an architect's plans for a Finnish steam bath, a 16-page portfolio of engravings of ducks) and three-color textile ads illustrated by swatches of materials (Shetland woolens, fine corduroys, cotton shirtings, etc.). Gentry extended the sample theme to its articles, in one of which a bag of marjoram was glued to a piece about the herb. In later issues, Gentry's editors plan to paste a trout fly in a fishing article, a leaf of fine...
...Until last week, one of the loneliest men there was its benevolent ruler: king John Clunies-Ross, a slim young (22) Briton who rules the 1,200 copra-gathering islanders under a 999-year charter granted by Queen Victoria to his great-greatgrandfather, Ross I, a Scot from the Shetland Isles, who settled there...
...dampened by rain. They woo the family trade with an imposing sideshow of picnic areas, merry-go-rounds, dance floors, shuffleboard courts and bottle-warming, car-washing and laundry service. Among the latest gimmicks, planned or already drawing customers to the airers: nightclubs, golf-driving ranges, Shetland ponies, barbecue pits and motorized bingo (the jackpot goes to the right speedometer mileage...
...about her past, Perle conjures up a picture of an Oklahoma childhood liberally sprinkled with scenes of little Perle in colored hair ribbons matching the sash around her waist. The little girl lived in a big, red brick mansion with stables out back, where each child had its own Shetland pony. Perle likes to say that she organized her first party on her twelfth birthday...
...time it will take the British aircraft industry to perfect the jet transports with which it hopes to surpass U.S. planes. Until then, BOAC will have to make do with obsolete, uneconomic transports, many of them converted bombers, and with intermediate new models now abuilding, such as the big Shetland flying boat (see cut). BOAC bought five Constellations, was about to get more when the Labor Government forbade it to spend any more precious dollars to modernize its fleet...