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...London apartment, robbery-prone (three times in four years) Skating Star Sonja Henie woke with a scream, then dashed into the street in a barefoot, unsuccessful pursuit of thieves who had stripped her bedroom of an Aleutian mink coat ($18,000), an ermine coat ($7,000), a mink jacket ($3,500), two gold compacts, $840 in cash...
...Restorer Luitwieler studied the master's Offering, he spotted a heavy, black coat of paint on the back, suspected that this coat covered another picture. Other museum officials scoffed, but Luitwieler waited patiently, month after month, while the newly acquired painting was on display until finally he was allowed to examine it more thoroughly. Slowly the heavy, black coat on the back yielded to his "chemicals, and the figure of a bearded man appeared, standing atop a pedestal with a silver key in one hand. Below was the title: St. Peter...
...juniors, '28 men were more worldly. Its members heeded the ads and subscribed to the New York Times ("Sports News Written by College Men") and Vanity Fair ("Published for what is probably the most intelligent group of readers in the world"). The junior might even have bought a raccoon coat for $275, a Dusenberg Roadster for $1750, or one of Langrock's Nassau model sack coats...
...could afford to send clothes to be dry-cleaned in the States, or to throw them away after they got dirty. Haiti's legion of nimble seamstresses were affected, because they could exercise their skill only on the familiar old linens. Diplomats were affected, because keeping a morning coat or a uniform presentable was a major problem. Jimmy Plinton, a U.S. Air Force instructor during World War II, had hoped to start an airline in Haiti, but as he surveyed the sartorial situation he decided instead to bring Haiti the blessings of modern dry-cleaning...
...Babylon" parties that led to the Morals Crisis of the mid-'20s. In the late '20s the introduction of sound set Hollywood on its ears, but it was followed by an era so fantastically prosperous that one frosty night Myrna Loy, it is said, left her mink coat wrapped around the roots of a chilly little peach tree...