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Last week furriers were in the midst of their January sale season and feeling decidedly hopeful. From $290 million in 1956, retail sales climbed back to $315 million in 1957, and many furriers think the market will keep improving. One big reason for the comeback is that women are not so suspicious as they were, thanks in large part to a 1952 federal law requiring truthful labeling. Said Harvey Hannah, chief of the wool and fur division of the Federal Trade Commission: "The act has done a lot to instill consumer confidence. There was a time when...
...more movie stars at CBS and NBC than at any [movie] studio." says Gossip Columnist Hedda Hopper. The TV set, once trimmed with skunk by a movie mogul who desired to show his contempt for the new medium, now can be ordered in mink from a Hollywood furrier. Even in the executive dining rooms of some of the movie studios that once swore war to the death against the invasion, television sets now play through lunch. These and many other signs suggest how television, with its voracious demand for stories, actors, film and filmmakers, has become the star...
...cinemoguls once frothed when Lana Turner let slip to an interviewer that she had five TV sets, and Beverly Hills Furrier Al Teitlebaum had a customer who, aspiring to dramatize his contempt, ordered a TV set covered in skunk fur. Now TV sets glitter within Romanoff's and during lunchtime in the executive dining rooms of major studios, where the executives claim they use TV for casting ideas. Jack Benny has seven sets. TV exerts such a spell on movie stars-especially when it happens to be showing their old films-that it has rendered the movie colony housebound...
...HANDSOME Westchester matron, chic in a Hattie Carnegie dress and fragrant with Patou's Moment Suprême, passed TIME Editor James C. Keogh in New York's Grand Central Terminal, humming: "Da-vy, Davy Crockett, King of the wild frontier!" In Beverly Hills, startled Furrier Al Teitelbaum told TIME Correspondent Ezra Goodman that a movie matron had handed him a mink stole and ordered it cut into "coonskin" caps for her two sons...
Early Career. Zhukov was born in a hut in the primitive village of Strelkovka, not very far from Moscow. As a youth he was a furrier's apprentice, but in 1915 he joined the Novgorod Dragoons and won at least two Czarist decorations for bravery before he had read a line of Karl Marx. Came the Revolution, and Zhukov, a veteran cavalryman, joined 1) the Red Guard, and 2) the Communist Party. Commanding a cavalry division, he won the notice of its political commissar: J. V. Stalin...