They said it ...
By Staff -- Gifts & Decorative Accessories, 4/1/2007
"It is too bad that the gift and art industry has to carry over into a new year the considerable burden of poor merchandise currently afflicting it."
— Editor's Letter, January 1948
"We have recently seen evidences […] of a definite fear psychosis. Manufacturers, retailers and consumers are all apparently waiting for something to happen. Certainly under these conditions we cannot blame the buying public for putting a lock on their pocketbooks."
—Joseph P. Kennedy, April 1948
"The unyielding sticklers for the modern and functional are as pretentious and ridiculous as someone with a one-track period complex who is Queen Anne queer."
—Richard Gump, January 1952
"The proverbial 'bull in a china shop' became something more than a familiar adage recently to the consternation of Varene Bros., dealers in chinaware in Paris. The animal (actually a steer) escaped from a shipment being unloaded at La Villette, the Paris slaughterhouse district, and headed for the nearest open door, which led to the firm's warehouse. Plates, jars and glasses were broken in true proverbial fashion before the animal was apprehended. Henri Varene, director of the firm, estimated damage at $100."
— Newsfront, November 1956
