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...some bread crumbs to a sickly pigeon. He runs out of crumbs, but the pigeon continues to stare at him with a baleful red eye. ''If I look at it long enough it will go away,'' the old man thinks. The pigeon pecks at his shoe. "Go away," the old man cries, kicking the pigeon in the throat; and it promptly keels over. That night the pigeon joins the other ghosts in the old man's room...
...hero (Vittorio Gassman), an artful dodger in need of some new shoes, strolls into a shoe store and tries on an expensive pair. "They look dark in this light," he murmurs, and permits the salesgirl to urge him toward the front door, where he carefully inspects the leather in the sunlight. A tomato, flung by an accomplice on the sidewalk, smacks him in the face. "Why, you punk!" the hero roars, and as the salesgirl stares in confusion he furiously pursues his assailant down the street and around the corner, running quite well for a man in a new pair...
...Suede Shoe Act. Politically, though a Daily Telegraph Gallup poll last week gave the Labor Party a record 13% lead over the Tories, the Common Market, and Macmillan's appeal to "work together," were the kind of things that traditionally rallied Britons behind their government. As if to demonstrate his composure, the Prime Minister showed up for a grueling House of Commons debate on the Nassau pact wearing a jauntily informal tweed suit and suede shoes. To Opposition cries that Britain cannot afford to replace its bomber force with a fleet of Polaris-armed nuclear submarines (estimated cost...
...Into the presidency of St. Louis' Brown Shoe Co. (1962 sales: $324 million) moved a man with just the name for the job. The new boss of the nation's second largest shoe manufacturer: Monte E. Shomaker (pronounced shoemaker). Shomaker, 57, has been one ever since he went to work in a Brown factory at 14. A no-nonsense production expert who specializes in cost cutting, he replaces Clark R. Gamble, 69, who will continue as chairman. The stickiest problem Shomaker faces is an antitrust ruling requiring Brown to sell the G. R. Kinney Corp., a 360 shoe...
There being no official hallmarks as in England and Holland, silversmiths were of necessity men of integrity, and upon their honor alone depended the quality of the silver that they hammered and engraved. At the wish of their shoe-buckled patrons, the smiths were generous with the silver as well, turning out strong, heavy pieces (the New England silversmiths scrimped and made their ware thin...