Word: caracul
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...night before Field Marshal Montgomery left, the love feast was climaxed by a Kremlin banquet at which Stalin himself kept filling the teetotaling visitor's glass for repeated toasts. Just before the banquet, Monty had been given a caracul cap to replace his famed black beret, and a long grey dress overcoat of a Soviet marshal-reportedly lined with $8,000 worth of sables-to replace the dramatic white sheepskin he had worn to Moscow...
Looking like Al Jolson Digged out to understudy Alfred Lunt in The Guardsman, Commander John S. Young, onetime NBC commentator and later assistant naval attache at Moscow, modeled the regulation dress for officers assigned to the Soviet Union. To the Navy bridge coat has been added a collar of caracul. The headpiece, also of caracul, is patterned after the Cossack...
Attorney General Frank Murphy's right arm reached deep into Louisiana again last week, brought forth from a Gold Coast farm (exotically stocked with Russian caracul sheep) the huge 242-lb. frame of ex-Governor Richard W. Leche, indicted him for conspiracy to defraud the U. S. in an illegal $148,000 sale of State-owned oil lands, for which he allegedly received a $67,000 cut. Beefy Mr. Leche, always known to the late Huey Long as "Jughead," and a one-third inheritor of Huey's empire, had suddenly resigned his Governorship in June after 37 months...
...view when the great Chicago Art Institute opened its 47th annual show last week. Many of the artists were there in person as were most of Chicago's socialites and connoisseurs, of whom the most important by far was a dumpy, indomitable lady swathed in pearls, orchids and caracul coat. Wife of the unassuming Honorary President of the Institute, Mrs. Frank G. Logan puts up the money for the $500 Logan prize-one of the two highest awards of the show. It is also Mrs. Logan, resolute opponent of modern art, who has complained most vociferously at the juries...
...violence in Soviet Russia has been to suppress and subjugate the famed Cossacks of the Don, for centuries Russia's boldest spirits, enjoying special immunities from the Tsar in return for their deathless loyalty and arrogant readiness to shoot down proletarian scum at the drop of a shaggy caracul hat. Some 20,000 members of the eleven Cossack tribes are now exiles, scattered throughout the world. Best known Cossack among non-Cossacks today is the distinguished War commander, General Peter Nikolaevitch Krasnov, blood-curdling author of such best sellers as From Double Eagle to Red Flag* and Napoleon...