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When swords went out of fashion, Solingen's craftsmen turned their skill to the making of bayonets, cutlery, scissors, surgical instruments, straight razors, and even wafer-thin, newfangled safety razor blades...
...Hanover, Pa., Hanover Craftsmen, Inc. announced a special chair for televiewers. Modeled after an old English cockfight chair, it is built so that a man can straddle it, rest his elbows on the back and put his drink (or dark glasses) on a built-in dropleaf tray. Women can sidesaddle. Price: $95 and up, depending on the upholstery...
Last week, with its big show drawing to a close, things were looking up for Tournai's present-day artists and craftsmen. The Belgian government had given Tournai tapestrymakers a 3,500,000-franc order, a new ceramics industry was being planned, the bell foundry was negotiating for a couple of big U.S. orders...
...Shoemaker, stick to your last!" was the sound advice dealt out to his fellow craftsmen by hardworking, he-man Author Ernest Hemingway in the afternoon of a full life. "If a writer," wrote Ernest in the New York Times Book Review, "became a critic or entered other fields it could lead to grave humiliations . . . Think of how it could shake a writer's confidence to lose the Secretariat of Agriculture to Louis Bromfield in some little smoke-filled room, or wake some morning to find that it was André Malraux who was managing De Gaulle instead...
When Hitler came to power, Wurm quickly became an outspoken defender of his church. So strong was his position that in 1934, after he had repeatedly criticized the Nazi regime, he was placed under only a mild house arrest. But the farmers and craftsmen of Württemberg, who knew his firm handshake and his practice of answering his own doorbell, staged an angry demonstration, demanding that Bishop Wurm be released. He was. Although he continued his fight against the Nazis, they never bothered him again...