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...Sears reductions included: cotton piece goods, 1.04%; cotton clothing, 1.25%; wool clothing, blankets, etc., 1.32%; silk goods, 10.22%; rayon, 1.3%; shoes and other leather goods, 1.96%; automobile tires & tubes, 2.32%; electrical appliances, 2.11%; floor coverings, 5.19%; building supplies, 2.35%; furniture...
...songs and dialogue-by Edward Mabley of the Teague organization, who never once forgot that two men impersonating a horse are always good for a laugh. A Thousand Times Neigh is a Ford's-eye-view of the problems of Dobbin, a $1,000 steed of cloth and leather, with movable eyes, ears, lips, jaws, tail. Horse-players: Vladimir Vassilieff, Kari Karnikovski. From 1903 to the present, Dobbin foots it featly while such top-notch Caravan dancers as Marie Jeanne and Nicki Magallanes mime the rise of the Ford-often on the toes of their ballet slippers. The music...
...most U. S. sport fans, the name of Hitchcock means America's greatest polo player. To horsemen, Hitchcock also means America's greatest steeplechase trainer. Oldtimers remember well when Thomas Hitchcock Sr., father of Tommy the Poloist, was a hell-for-leather rider himself. A Long Island swell, he learned polo at Oxford, was one of the first ten-goalers in the U. S., captained the first international polo team that challenged England for the Westchester...
...when he left college finally. Have to get a job doing something. Well, then, he'd be free to salvage civilization. Young man; no responsibilities. Political work, newspaper campaigns, social work with Vag as the driving force behind it all. Food, shelter, clothing? A sandwich, his garret, his leather-elbowed jacket. Life was going to be far above a grubby, materialistic plane. This time the voice was cutting. "And the wife and kids?" it sneered almost viciously. Oh. Vag had forgotten. Yes, there was the Wellesley apparition to be considered, loved, fed, and--he winced as he recalled her Dache...
...prospered again, until at the outbreak of World War II it was a thriving little country of rich peasants, rich merchants, rich industrialists. It banks for much of Europe, is headquarters of Orbed, big European steel cartel, ranks as tenth steel-producing country of the world. It manufactures also leather and beer. Were it not for its fear of both friends and foes-which can hardly be told apart-Luxembourg would be a perfect Ruritania...