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...Hotel last week, some 14,500 people milled through a maze of cages, inspecting hundreds of fluffy little animals with faces like rabbits and tails like anemic squirrels. The animals were chinchillas; the occasion was the Eastern show of the National Chinchilla Breeders of America, a sort of Westmin ster Kennel Club for rodents and the trade association for one of the strangest businesses in the world...
Author d'Eaubonne affects to have translated her novel from the 16th Century Flemish memoir of one Jan van Ster-teen, an atheistic painter who, toward the year 1595, met up in London with a traveling mountebank named Jonathan William Anthony Oldhorse. Oldhorse, a born leader, forms a blood-brotherhood between the Fleming, a gay young Frenchman named Marie-Jean-Pierre Saint-Benoist, and a pensive Jew named Jacob Keepjeke. They all agree to obey Old-horse to the death, and soon...
Typical of the mushrooming new industry is Tennessee's Boot-ster Manufacturing Co. It puts out a plastic spatlike gadget that fits over a boy's shoe, thus "makes any shoe a cowboy boot." J. Z. Miller, part owner of two small department stores, got the idea for his Boot-ster when he overheard parents complaining of the high cost ($5 and up), high heels and narrow toes of boys' cowboy boots...
...teamed up with Lloyd Easterling, an office supplies dealer, and they began making Boot-sters as a sideline. Soon it became their main line. From $75,000 in the first nine months, sales streaked to $250,000 last year. Now Boot-ster has added plastic cowboy cuffs, lariats and spurs, expects to gross $1,000,000 this year...
...Charlottesville Oct. 18 Holy Cross Oct. 25 Dartmouth Nov. 1 Rutgers Nov. 8 Princeton Nov. 15 Brown Nov. 22 Yale at New Haven VARSITY SOCCER Oct. 4 Tufts at Medford Oct. 10 Army at West Point Oct. 18 Amherst at Amherst Oct. 25 Dartmouth Nov. 1 W're'ster P.I. at W're'ster Nov. 8 Princeton Nov. 15 Brown Nov. 21 Yale at New Haven JUNIOR VARSITY FOOTBALL Oct. 24 Dartmouth Oct. 31 Open Nov. 7 Princeton Nov. 14 Brown at Providence Nov. 21 Yale at New Haven FRESHMAN FOOTBALL Oct. 11 Andover at Andover Oct. 18 Dartmouth...