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...chief casualty of the new labels is that old standby, the rabbit, which for years has traveled under a host of now illegal pseudonyms. Among them: Arctic seal, Baltic leopard, Belgium beaver, bluerette, castorette, chinchillette, erminette, French sable, Galland squirrel, marmotine, minkony, moline, nutriette and twin beaver. Maximum penalty for mislabeling: $5,000 fine and a year in jail...
...great surprise that in the week before the match, prancy Gussie Moran, seventh-ranking U.S. amateur last year, spent a good part of her time in press conferences where she was asked whether she would wear lace panties or a leopard-skin number. Meanwhile, her opponent, Pauline Betz Addie, put in a week of hard practice, polishing up the game that had made her (1942, '43, '44, '46) a four-time national champion...
...Manhattan, warming up for her debut as a pro, Gertrude ("Gorgeous Gussie") Moron modeled her latest play to the tennis galleries: leopard-skin panties. Undecided what to wear on her six-month tour of the country, she thought it would be "something simple, made out of better material than the dresses for amateur matches"-perhaps black velvet panties "completely covered except when I move...
...clear five ships from New York every week. In 1949 American Export completed 160 voyages, carried autos, lubricating oils, tires and EGA foodstuffs to the Mediterranean and India, hauling more than half of all U.S. ocean cargo to that area. Its return shipments were more exotic: monkeys from Calcutta, leopard skins from Yemen, Italian vermouth, Turkish tobacco. From its 1,490,548 tons of freight and 13,337 passengers, American Export rolled up a $5,900,000 profit. American Export, already closest rival of U.S. Lines for U.S. transatlantic passenger supremacy, hopes to clinch the title next year when...
...glad they should be, WNEW was punctuating its station breaks with burlesque versions of soap operas and crime thrillers. Sample: "And now . . .Chapter 2025 of Barbara Babbitt, Girl Ranger. Yesterday, you'll recall, we left Barbara pleading with the district attorney for the life of Cuddles, her Oriental leopard. Meanwhile,unknown to either Barbara or Cuddles, Wambly Townsend, the handsome young accountant, is at this very moment flying to the state capital to ask. . . for a reprieve. Will Wambly Townsend succeed in his desperate race against time? Does Barbara know he is secretly in love with Judith, Barbara...