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...which oil driller's wife is having a baby. He takes all the newspapers, listens regularly to the Arabic radio broadcasts. When the Moscow radio calls Belgrave a "dictator" Sulman chuckles, twits his $9, 600-a-year adviser. From time to time, in his Rolls-Royce with a coat of arms designed by Belgrave, he drops by Belgrave's office, wants to know all that's going...
...bargain binge, which was started by the Mode men's shop in 1919. Now almost all stores take part. Like Mickey Margoles, other Washingtonians had waited in nightlong vigils to get reconditioned typewriters for 99^, toasters, waffle irons and percolators (used) for 9^ each, a $500 Persian lamb coat for $15, reconditioned washing machines for $9. In nearby Alexandria a 1939 Plymouth went for 89^. A Mrs. E. M. Schott came from Youngstown, Ohio to buy two fur pieces, one a silver-blue mink scarf (price...
...morning Friday, the crowd at Zlotnick the Furrier's was so thick that a policeman was called. He ended up buying his wife a bargain fur coat ($39). At Hecht's, one of the biggest downtown department stores, an estimated 8,000 bargain hunters crammed in during the first 15 minutes after opening, driving the buyer in the kitchen furniture department right up on top of a dinette table...
...scale test of the market for skins. Not for another five years or so will the U.S. chinchilla population be big enough (estimated as high as 6,000,000) for pelting. No one knows what will happen to prices then. Breeders talk glowingly of $6,000 to $10,000 coats that will wear a lifetime, but many furriers disagree. They argue that the fur is so fragile that it would wear out in a year of constant use. And there is no market anyway. A few years ago, Manhattan's Bergdorf Goodman tried for months to sell...
With that he threw on his coat, grabbed the book and his car keys and left the room. As he emerged from the entryway Vag was happy to see that the snow had stopped. He started up the block toward his modest coupe...