Word: gorham
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...buyers bought up everything they could get their hands on, but they showed a penchant for luxury goods, ranging from Tiffany & Co.'s gold martini mixer ($2,000) and Black, Starr & Gorham's gold tea set ($30,000) to Lord & Taylor's Hong Kong silk lounging pajamas ($79.95) and gold-plated toothbrushes ($5). "Anything with a gimmick sells very well," said Dominic Tampone, president of Manhattan's Hammacher Schlemmer: "This always happens in a high economy. You give a person something he wouldn't normally buy for himself...
Bibles & Attendance. Outside the Garden, the impact of the crusade is harder to assess. One index-Bible sales-is inconclusive; a few bookstores (Morehouse-Gorham, religious booksellers whom Graham recommends; Calvary Bookstore, near the Garden; and Doubleday) report a small increase, others none...
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...Odds-Makers. A World War I marine, sometime law student and businessman (lighting fixtures), Leo Hirschfield in 1940 bought out Minneapolis' Gorham Press, which published a weekly football record. Under its new name, the press now puts out schedules and record books, covering basketball, football and baseball. And it operates a daily oddsmaking service for clients (who pay up to $25 a week), gives the line by phone on college and National Football League games, college and National Basketball Association games, quotes the day's prices on baseball games in both major and minor leagues...
...spiritual road to Canterbury is a meandering one, winding through far country to encompass a multitude of views. Those who travel it are widely diverse pilgrims who come to the Anglican Communion in search of widely diverse qualities. In Modern Canterbury Pilgrims (Morehouse-Gorham; $3.85), published this week, 22 converts to Anglicanism-from former Roman Catholics to former Jews-tell why they became Anglicans, and describe what they discovered. Some of their views...