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...over a year, the U.S. fur industry has speculated about a strange new fur, a lustrous platinum mink with a soft blue overtone. Many a furrier was not certain whether it was a worthless freak or a Comstock lode for U.S. fur breeders...
Wild silverblu mink are exceedingly rare. One furrier tried for ten years to collect enough for a single jacket. Domestic breeders, in whose litters they occasionally turn up, had been experimenting with them since 1931. But progress was small because furriers considered them worth less freaks and ranchers were ignorant of Mendel's laws of heredity. Larry Moore, who understood Mendel, persuaded other ranchers that the laws could be used to breed silverblus and dollars. Last week one bundle of Moore's furs brought the auc tion's top prices, $265 a skin, netting him over...
April. In a Bronx court, Mrs. Rose Hein complained that she had found John Looney intruding in her bedroom, said he had told her that he was "looking for a Mr. Grossman, a furrier." Mr. Looney told the judge that he was really trying to peddle some...
Rose Hein complained that she had found John Looney intruding in her bedroom, said he told her that he was "looking for a Mr. Grossman, a furrier." Mr. Looney told the judge that he was really trying to peddle some...
...Moonlight's biggest sponsors is Furrier I. J. Fox. Survivors from a tanker torpedoed off New Jersey last winter told Lawrence about how they had spent a long, cold night in a small boat hearing him praise the luxury of furs...