Word: silversmithing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Anecdotes told by Merchant Marcus at the Boston Distribution Conference (TIME, Oct. 20): A silversmith refused to make 40 tea sets because, while making one set was fun, making 40 sets would be hard work; 2) a lard seller in a village market refused to sell her whole pail of lard at once until she had had her fill of gossip...
...Buenos Aires, a beautiful tea set caught his eye. It cost about $60 but he thought if he ordered 40 the unit cost might be less. Said the silversmith: "Ha! I know what you are talking about, but I can't get any more. But, if I do get any more they will be higher." His reason: to make one was a pleasure, to make more would be "really work...
...Chile, Mr. Marcus admired and bought a hand-worked copper cigaret case. He couldn't buy any more because its maker, a silversmith, really felt it beneath him to work in copper. There Mr. Marcus planted a seed for the future: to glamorize copper work, he offered a prize to the schoolboy who. could make the best handmade copper gadget...
Fifty-six years ago, when Bostonians wished to erect a statue of Silversmith Paul Revere, the prize-winning model was turned in by a 22-year-old, Utah-born student named Cyrus E. Dallin, who beat such experts as Daniel Chester French...