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Revolt, Almost. At the Vélodrome d'Hiver, 30,000 people wedged in and more tried to. Dapper doctors and smart young women in furs sat next to seedy old men in skullcaps. A young blonde who had a perfume shop near the Trocadero told a reporter that...
Burglars broke into the London house of the tenth Duke & Duchess of Rutland, carried off $28,000 worth of furs, jewelry, oddments. But first they polished off a bottle of the duke's best Scotch, and gnawed a few apples. The duke (once reportedly a swain of Princess Elizabeth...
Died. Irving Joseph Fox, 58, who ran a single fur coat into a $12-million annual business (I. J. Fox, Inc.) by some of the loudest publicity since Barnum; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. London-born son of a furrier, Fox pioneered in sky writing and singing commercials ("All...
White men learned how to survive in a brutal country from the Indians and demonstrated their gratitude by destroying a race. The Indians could not adapt themselves to civilization and soon became the victims in one of the greatest confidence games in history. Drunk on pure alcohol, the braves "sighed...
Surrealist Salvador Dali, a realist about his worldly goods, called the cops to report that his seaside bungalow at Pebble Beach, Calif. had been ransacked. Missing: several suitcase loads of silver, jewelry, furs. Ignored by the burglars: all of Dali's crutch-&-limp-watch paintings.