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...female minks really are more delicate and finer looking. "My sister-in-law wasn't unfriendly," she explained. "Her coat is more beautiful than mine, and . . . hers is female, mine. male. Now I hate mine and I'm going to have it cut up for lining a cloth coat...
Department stores were already beginning to feel buyer resistance. For the first time in many weeks, sales for the week ending Feb. 14 fell below the corresponding 1947 period. They dropped most in clothing. In New York City the garment trades, which should have been hustling with summer business, were hard hit. Some 10,000 had been laid off or put on part time. "Popular"-priced dress manufacturers reported that their clothes were not popular at all. They blamed the "unreasonable" prices charged at the mills for their cloth. But many mills reported that they were booked solidly through June...
Until 4 a.m. on Ash Wednesday, stocky (5 ft. 8 in.), moderate-drinking (scotch) Alton Ochsner, a bouncing 51, carried out his carnival duties. As. Rex, King of the Carnival, he wore a white satin suit, high white kid boots and bejeweled cloth-of-gold robes. But at 7:30 a.m.-an hour and a quarter later than usual-he was on the job in white surgeon's gown at Prytania and Aline Streets. Dr. Ochsner's real job is director of Ochsner Clinic...
...first postwar shipment of Japanese rayon arrived in the U.S. But it gave U.S. rayon men no competitive worries. The Japanese product was so poor that importers could sell little of the cloth to U.S. buyers. They were offering it for reexport at about 50? a yard, considerably under domestic prices...
...days later, in the Glasgow slum of Camlachie, men in grimy cloth caps and women in shawls trudged out to vote. Result: Conservative Charles McFarlane, a black-browed hardware manufacturer, squeaked to a 395-vote victory over Labor's John M. Inglis, an engine driver. Winston Churchill wired "heartiest congratulations." It was the first time since 1945 (and in 23 tries) that a Tory had won a Labor-held seat in a by-election. But the "glorious victory" the Tories exulted in was not clear-cut; three independents had sapped about 2,500 votes from Labor's strength...