Word: furriers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...furor has also hit the media. A recent segment of the popular TV series L.A. Law involved a furrier who sued an animal-rights group for ruining his business. The show aired gruesome video clips of animals caught in brutal leg traps. On an upcoming episode of Designing Women, narcissistic Suzanne Sugarbaker is mauled by anti-fur activists. When Atlanta disk jockey Scott Woodside this month mentioned that he had bought his wife a mink coat, listeners deluged his station with calls. The result was an informal poll in which the anti-fur forces carried...
...animal-rights threat, the Fur Information Council of America last month launched an ad campaign stressing freedom of choice: "Today fur. Tomorrow leather. Then wool. Then meat." Bernard Groger, co-publisher of the trade magazine Fur World, says, "Nobody can tell the American woman what to wear." Warns Seattle furrier Nicholas Benson: "You're seeing signs of terrorism. People are afraid to wear furs on the streets because of what might happen...
With the support of fellow businessmen, Furrier Edward Hamilton threatened to bus vagrants to the Goose Hollow Inn, a campy tavern owned by none other than Hizzoner the mayor. Though Clark denies that the threat of unwanted customers had anything to do with his change of heart, last week he urged the city commissioners to lift...
Philadelphia furrier; he for the third time, she for the first; in Miami Beach...
ENGAGED. George Abbott, 96, venerable Broadway author and director who contributed to yet another hit this year, the Tony Award-winning revival of On Your Toes; and Joy Moana Valderrama, 52, Philadelphia furrier. The wedding, planned for later this month, will be his third, her first...