Word: skins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vittorio Abbati, a perfume salesman, had always wanted to lead a symphony orchestra. He spent nearly all he could save on phonograph records. At 52, he owned 1,500. For 15 years, standing on a leopard skin in front of his gramophone, he would wave a baton at an orchestra that wasn't there. Eyes closed, jaws set, he would signal with palm upraised to the imaginary brasses, pout at the piccolos, bend to the cellos. He knew the scores of several symphonies by heart...
Born. To Ilse Koehler Koch, 41, convicted "Bitch of Buchenwald" who collected lampshades made of tattooed human skin, and (putatively) one Fritz Schaefer, a fellow war criminal who tunneled into her cell last winter: a male bastard; in Landsberg (Germany) City Hospital, under guard. Name: Uwe Koehler. Weight...
Manufacturers blamed the rise on "a cost-price squeeze." Thus, they pointed out that between May and August hide and skin prices advanced 38 points on the Bureau of Labor Statistics wholesale index while shoe prices advanced less than 3 points. (But hide prices were still under the peak of last November while shoes were well up from then.) Said Lawrence B. Sheppard, president of the National Shoe Manufacturers Association: "In the shoe industry, replacement pricing [i.e., raising the price of previously manufactured shoes to cover replacement cost] must be substituted for wishful thinking...
...unveiled. What they saw, in Earl Carroll's gaudy Hollywood restaurant, was enough to make some of them wonder who was being kidded. The 98 displays, each by a different designer, ranged in effect from the muffled look of the '90s to the bare look of tiger-skin days...
...wonder was that no one had thought of it before. Its originator (an engineer) got the idea when an accidental explosion embedded oil droplets in a victim's flesh without marking his skin. The implement was later perfected by a group at R. P. Scherfer Corp., Detroit...