1.   Laura Bush, along with philanthropist Mary Margaret Farabee, was a key force in launching the book festival, the first statewide fair of its kind in Texas.

2.   Rochester is not the first New England fair to employ cows as local color.

3.   The architect, Wallace K. Harrison, also designed the Trylon and Perisphere symbols of the first fair, which stood on the site of the Unisphere.

4.   This was the first important fair in which Baden-Baden objects could be spotted, all cleaned up, marked up and bearing their royal past.

5.   Attempting to compete with Las Vegas, Hamburg and nearby Vienna, Budapest on Friday opened its first sex fair.

6.   Solsons encountered it at its first international fair in Germany.