Word: furriers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...customer settled in 60 days). Later it sold a shopper two sable coats, one for herself and one for her sister. As a token of esteem, the shopper bought her maid a mink. The bill: $107,000. In 1949 Gunther's merged with an other old-line furrier, Jaeckel, Inc., founded...
...three newspapers said that a Louis Ritter had died in Scarsdale, N.Y., reported that he had been a successful furrier and hotelman. Then the phones began to ring. Next day both the Herald Tribune and World-Telegram shamefacedly admitted that the Louis Ritter who had died in Scarsdale was really a real estate operator and philanthropist, confessed confusing him with a Louis R. Ritter traveling in Europe who dealt in furs and hotels. Still gloriously muddled, the News ran a followup story about Ritter's funeral services, jumbled together the biographies of the Ritters, living and dead...
...next day the papers discovered they had not been so wrong after all. The A.P. ticker brought the news that Furrier-Hotelman Ritter had just died in Nice, France. Back on the beam again, the Herald Tribune and World-Telegram printed new versions of their earlier prescient obits and brought their necrology up to date...
...Boxing Judge Bert Grant, 51, was indicted in New York City on charges of taking bribes up to $100 to influence his decisions in five bouts. His alleged briber: Manager Herman ("Hymie the Mink") Wallman, a Manhattan furrier and reputed front man for Frankie Carbo, the underworld commissar of boxing. Wallman's tigers won all the bouts; Judge Grant is accused of making sure they did. The New York State Athletic Commission suspended both men, banned Wallman's fighters, including Heavyweight Alex Miteff, Middleweight Randy Sandy and Featherweight Ike Chestnut...
...Steel Hour. "You see, I got four daughters. Each one takes turns having me for a visit. Every three months, like clockwork, I get sent out-like a quarterly dividend." This was the TV story of Walter Slezak, playing a retired furrier from Manhattan, whose bumbling social presence made his daughters uncomfortable and embarrassed their husbands. Visiting son-in-law No. 4, an ambitious Hollywood agent, Slezak lumberingly wrecked a cocktail party by commenting amiably on a guest's mink ("Say, that's a nice mutation you got there; it's not what you'd call...