Word: fur
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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These Thousand Hills is A. B. Guthrie's third, and least successful, novel in his multi-volume attempt to chronicle fictionally the epic of Western America's development. His first, The Big Sky, was an account of mountain fur trappers in the 1830's. The Way West, which won Guthrie the 1950 Pulitzer Prize, depicted the westward trek of Lije Evans and his wagon train to Oregon...
...doll, "Lissy" ($10 to $15.95), that walks, sits and kneels; the Bonomi Italian dolls ($17.98 to $24.98) feature straight Audrey Hepburn haircuts, come equipped with skating and riding outfits. Stuffed animals, especially the big ones, are selling better than ever. They range from a Teddy Bear in Borgana fur to a hound dog inspired by Elvis Presley, and Steiff's life-size reindeer ($250). For the military minded, hot sellers are Marx's "Rin-tin-tin Fort Apache" and "Captain Gallant" ($6 apiece) and, among games, Parker Brothers' "Scoop...
Visitors to Mexico are often affronted by dogs whose naked, blotchy skins look as if a loathsome disease had stripped them of their fur. Some of these creatures are really victims of mange or eczema, but others are more or less mixed descendants of the Xoloizcuintle,* the hairless, edible dog of the Aztecs. "Xolos" have been neglected until recently, but last week Norman P. Wright, a onetime British diplomat living in Mexico, was well on the way to establishing them as a rare, high-fashion breed...
...palace, Mindszenty appeared, a small Hungarian tricolor pinned to his cassock. His ordeal had left his face drawn, and he was more stooped and grey than Hungarians remembered him, but his eyes were bright and alert. Machine-gun-toting young soldiers moved forward and solicitous!) placed a fur-lined coat over his shoulders to guard him from the crisp...
...that I wouldn't have to explain to my children - aged 13, 10 and 6 - why that gorgeous gal is sitting beneath the Christmas tree with nothing on but her rhinestones and rabbit fur (presumably Santa Claus caught her minus even those), I tore the page out to show to my husband - who will no doubt need no explanation...