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...Joan S. Marcus Huntington Beach, Calif...
...Couples glanced furtively at other couples, flashed grins, hugged decorously, waved modestly, hailed one another not too loudly. They paid only scant attention to the animals in whose presence they chatted vigorously. The elephant looked lost in thought. It was more sophisticated than the baby elephant seen in Neiman-Marcus later in the week, over whom shoppers gooed. If I had arrived earlier at the closet lady's party, I would have seen yet another elephant which played the harmonica and waved the American flag. But I missed that...
...good old stories have been worn down worse than river rocks. The oilman who re-created an entire Neiman-Marcus window display-gowns, gems, furs and all-in his living room one Christmas morn because his wife had said she had seen something in the window she wanted. The fellow who told LIFE magazine that he bought a Rolls-Royce because its powder-blue paint job matched his wife's favorite hat. Then there was H.L. Hunt, who, a Dallas editor once said, "would be the most dangerous man in America if he wasn't such a damn...
...admits it. Years ago there was a widely circulated cartoon that captured this never expressed emotion. In the frame were a man and a barefoot woman, a farming couple, with an oil gusher erupting on their barren land. The woman was saying, "How late does Neiman-Marcus stay open...
...hard-packed pint, Tofutti is selling briskly from pushcarts and at custard shops and specialty stores almost all the way across the country. Strangely, it has not caught on yet in Southern California, normally a hotbed of food fads. But Tofutti is moving smoothly at chic Neiman-Marcus in Dallas and at Bloomingdale's in New York City. Haagen-Dazs, the designer-ice cream folks, will begin nationwide distribution to retailers later this month. On Wall Street, stock in Mintz's Tofu Time, Inc., which went public in December, has tripled in value and split...