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Fall is the time for fur, as everyone knows, and fur means mink. Or does...
Pakistan is offering saris for $15 to $45 and 17 tall cedars (for the best offer). Israel is marketing fur coats, and Ireland is selling lace and sweaters (highest bids). Thailand wants to sell its temple-like pavilion. Montana wants to sell a 300-ft.-long boardwalk, a 56-ft.-long public lavatory, and its live elk. Florida is asking $50,000 for Smokey, a porpoise trained to spit out fires and play basketball. Dozens of companies are selling computers, typewriters, video tape recorders and other equipment...
Died. Harry Reser, 69, oldtime banjoist, whose fur-trimmed Clicquot Club Eskimos kept the NBC airways jingling to the tune of Ain't She Sweet? and Barney Google every week between 1925 and 1933, later strummed for Sammy Kaye; of a heart attack, while tuning up for his nightly performance in the orchestra of Broadway's Fiddler on the Roof; in Manhattan...
...list of immigrants and their sons who helped to mold American art and industry, politics and science is endless. There were Steel Magnate Andrew Carnegie (Scotland), Fur Trader John Jacob Astor (Germany), Inventor Alexander Graham Bell (Scotland), the Du Fonts from France and Yeast Tycoon Charles L. Fleischmann from Hungary. German-born Albert Einstein, Hungarian-born Edward Teller and Italian-born Enrico Fermi helped the U.S. to unlock the atom's secrets. There have been more immigrant musicians than one can shake a baton at, from Irving Berlin (Russia) and Victor Herbert (Ireland) to Artur Rubinstein (Poland) and Dimitri...
...Cole's wilderness was nothing compared with the expanses found by the artists who, from the 1840s onward, Set out to answer the cry, "Westward, Ho!" Freebooters, poets and discoverers though many of them were, they rode the rafts with fur traders, saddled up with military expeditions, visually discovered, in the still nomadic Indian tribes, a world adying, and saw in the lonely plains and mountains a new testing ground. Outstanding was Albert Bierstadt, whose monumental views of the Rockies, with their Wagnerian thunder and soaring rainbows , earned him $35,000 a canvas. But so rapidwas the conquest...