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...scavenging genius of the American instinct runs deep: use anything, adapt everything goes the rule, whether it is castles from the Rhine or old British ocean liners. A case in point is Mrs. Florence Barry, 57, owner of a Manhattan thrift shop called Encore. No sooner did she read in the newspaper that the Paris police force was about to discard its famed capes for raglan-sleeved overcoats than she decided that police capes were just the thing for her customers...
While Nkrumah's ministers raced around with their mistresses in big Mercedes cars, Ghana's new rulers stress thrift, churchgoing and close family ties. They are hospitable to foreigners; outside the capital of Accra, billboards that once proclaimed "Down with Neo-Colonialism" now read "Ghana Welcomes Foreign Investment." One sure sign that Ghana is a different place these days was the friendly visit there last week by Vice President Hubert Humphrey, the first top U.S. official to visit Ghana since Richard Nixon went to its independence celebrations...
...Francisco Artist Bruce Conner paints and pastes together his caustic collages and assemblages from all manner of thrift-shop odds and ends. When they were shown at the Museum of Modern Art's "Art of Assemblage" in 1961, William Seitz, the show's organizer, was sufficiently impressed to rank Conner on a par with Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns. Yet, while the latter two have gone on to Venicelebrity and $20,000 canvases, Conner, at 34, remains mainly an underground hero, known to the world at large only for his fine experimental films...
With personal assets of perhaps $6,000,000, Illinois' Senator Charles Percy is hardly prototypical of the impoverished public servant whose wife must make do with a Republican thrift-shop coat...
...Place Like Home. Among U.S. thrift institutions there is certainly no place quite like Ahmanson's Beverly Hills-based Home S. & L., the nation's largest. Some 775,000 people keep their savings there, and last month Home's assets reached $2.5 billion, making it almost twice the financial size of its nearest competitor. Home was a midget with assets of less than $1,000,000 in 1947 when Ahmanson bought it for $162,000; he was making a shrewd bet that the yet unstarted postwar housing boom would make fortunes for mortgage lenders...