With all the fanfare of a neighborhood block party, Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co. this week threw open its doors to "Italy-in-Macy's, U.S.A.," a million-dollar sale of Italian imports spread out over an entire floor of its New York store. More than 25,000 people crowded into the show the first afternoon, were waited on by clerks decked out in Italian costumes, watched Italian craftsmen blowing glass, tooling leather, making ceramics. Other exhibits: a full-size Venetian gondola, models of Columbus' flagship, a reproduction of St. Peter's Church, and a donkey cart (lent by General George...
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