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...just past midnight. The 300 guests have emerged from the gaily trimmed dining tents, and are now doing the cha cha cha on the wooden dance floor that covers part of the lawn. A champagne fountain burbles into the hollow-stem crystalware. The hostess snuggles her mink stole over her airy Howard Greer original. The host pats his cummerbund and stares expansively at his Thunderbird convertible in the drive. Then he surveys the whole scene and realizes that he is not the master of a blessed thing he surveys. The tents, the chairs, the band, the dance floor, the artificial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Home: You-Rent-lt | 9/8/1961 | See Source »

Subways. While many articles are rented for the purpose of borrowing status (a mink stole, from Manhattan's Consolidated Laundries for $35 a night; a Rolls-Royce, from Buckingham Livery for $9 an hour) or showing off (an elephant, from Fred Birkner for $500 a day), most users rent things that they can afford but require only for a short time. Thus it makes sense for the home gardener to rent the electric hedge trimmers that he needs only three times a year ($1.50 for a few hours), or for the host to rent five dozen highball glasses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Home: You-Rent-lt | 9/8/1961 | See Source »

...bank. Already into the Giants for $65,200 in salary advances and $8,641 in hock to the revenooers, the "Say Hey" center fielder faced further depredations from his estranged wife Marghuerite (who indignantly denies Mays's charge that she "goes for $400 shoes and $8,000 mink coats"). Moaned Willie's attorney, who was fighting to un-sweeten Marghuerite's separation fee in a California court: "I hoped to be Willie's financial adviser, but it's turned out that I'm just a scorekeeper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 18, 1961 | 8/18/1961 | See Source »

...shelf (did Jackie overexpose it?) to be replaced by small, back-of-the-head berets of lizard and other exotic game, while furry cuffs and banding tone up the dresses. Fringed shawls in brocades, silks and satins are widely shown. Branell, among others, dresses up a daytime suit with mink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: Fall Preview | 6/16/1961 | See Source »

...home-built craft powered by a 450-h.p. sports-car engine. "I wanted a hot boat,'' said its owner. "This engine was souped up until it can't be no more without blowing up." Near by cruised a soft, inboard on whose stern was mounted a mink-lined doghouse, home for the pink toy poodle of its master's pink-haired wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Leisure: The Prairie Schooners | 6/9/1961 | See Source »

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