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...charming French couple, Nissol Aladjem and Hazel Brill, (Smith '50) came off with the grand prix of the evening, a bottle of real champagne and a bottle of real French ("Chanel Five") perfume, according to the anglicized legend on the label...
...hears that these late November meetings are self-sufficient entities--complete whole football seasons synthesized into three hour, red and blue capsules, to be swallowed only in the Yale Bowl or Harvard Stadium. What more can be said? The 75,000 spectators, the sounds and colors, the brandy and Chanel-scented air--all the riotous and mellow components of the Weekend are, above all, tributes to a football game that year after year begins with little, brews for sixty minutes, and produces greatness...
...natural wild mink coat, on sale after Christmas for $3,300 (with a 20% tax), would sell for $3,025 (with only a 10% tax). A half-ounce bottle of Chanel No. 5, now costing $12 with tax, would cost $11. Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt's Monday nights at the Met would cost her $1,221 a season instead of $1,320. A bottle of bonded bourbon, now selling for $6.90, would cost 60 less...
There were raccoon coats with built-in hip flasks, plaid-seated convertibles, plenty of Canadian Club; Vag was mentally immersed in a maelstrom of all night parties and lost weekends. He saw the crowds and colors of November Saturday afternoons and smelled the mixed aroma of burning leaves, Chanel, and rye hovering over Soldiers Field. Pretty girls there would be by the score, by the six dozen--the "golden girls." The bright lights and gay scenes revolved in perfect time to the Six Little Tailors, and for once, Vag smiled at the jingle...
...Diversion perfumes). For the "world sales rights" (virtual ownership), Ruskin will pay Westall $600,000, promises to buy $30 million worth of goods from the company during the next 30 years. From his new eminence, he curled a lip at the big names in perfumery, said: "Who is Chanel? They sell less than $1,000,000 worth of perfume a year...