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First came Prophet Jones's 26 pieces of luggage, containing some of his 400 suits and his $12,900 white mink coat (TIME, March 2). Then, with an entourage including two valets, two secretaries, a hairdresser, two bodyguards and a cook, came Prophet James F. Jones himself. When about 15 yards separated him from Father Divine and his blonde wife, Mother Divine (in a mink jacket and orchid corsage), the ecstatic faithful piled in around them, crying, "Peace, peace-it's wonderful, wonderful!" A long-armed policeman was helpless to restore order. Then Father Divine raised...
...That's a danged good idea," said the industrialist, "and I'll have one too." The store has since made the coat so popular that once, when it put $150,000 worth of coats in a window display, it sold out in a few days...
Despite the heat of Texas, Stanley Marcus has personally sold $5,000,000 worth of mink coats, and he claims that the store sells more than any other store on earth. But he once refused to sell an oilman a mink coat for his 16-year-old daughter starting school in the East because it would not be appropriate, instead persuaded him to buy a $295 muskrat. He also sees to it that Neiman's stocks many items his customers might need in an emergency, e.g., a set of Steuben crystal plates with Mexico's crest "because sooner...
...wore the pink coat of a Master of Fox Hounds at officers' hunts...
...analyses of books that Clara was reading-Shakespeare, Dickens, Jack London." When they could afford it, they telephoned, and Alf noticed that Clara's isolation led her to speak in dated British slang, with such expressions as "ripping" and "top-hole." Alf sent Clara dresses and a fur coat; he sent Nicky, the seven-year-old son he had never seen, a complete Hopalong Cassidy outfit with a "bristling armory of guns...