Over the years, I have poked fun at the Hammacher Schlemmer gift catalog. On the cover, they boast they have “the best, the ...

Neiman Marcus is famous for its outrageous annual Christmas Book catalog, where money is often no object, and the gifts offer the ultimate bragging rights. Every year, the classic store offers ...

Lawrie Schlemmer was born into what he always said was "a fairly boring" Afrikaans family (though half of it was English-speaking) in Pretoria, but once, on a long trip into Zululand, I got him to ...