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Nobody else knew much about Carbo, either. Such assorted characters as Hymie ("The Mink'') Wallman and Willie ("The Undertaker") Ketchum, a sullen pair of part-time managers, had heard that Frankie was interested in boxing-but never from Frankie, of course. Never nothing from Frankie. Wallman, who had invited Carbo to each of his three daughters' weddings, did not even know his friend's address. How were the invitations delivered? Well, Frankie and The Mink just happened to "bunk" into each other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Frankie & Jimmie | 6/6/1955 | See Source »

...Moment Suprême, passed TIME Editor James C. Keogh in New York's Grand Central Terminal, humming: "Da-vy, Davy Crockett, King of the wild frontier!" In Beverly Hills, startled Furrier Al Teitelbaum told TIME Correspondent Ezra Goodman that a movie matron had handed him a mink stole and ordered it cut into "coonskin" caps for her two sons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Publisher's Letter, may 23, 1955 | 5/23/1955 | See Source »

...Moore, Mrs. Durries Crane, onetime ballerina with Chicago's Civic Opera, suddenly became aware of a horrifying coincidence: the First Lady wore a blue-and-green-print taffeta dress almost exactly like her own. In the reception line Mrs. Crane tried to conceal her own outfit with her mink cape, but Mamie spied the maneuver, gaily cried: "Don't hide it. I think it's pretty." Muttered blushing Ledova Crane: "It's not really the same." "Oh, yes it is," bubbled Mamie as she opened Mrs. Crane's frantically clutched cape. "You just took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 11, 1955 | 4/11/1955 | See Source »

...phenomena are the two young ladies whose voices are pitched lower than most of the men's. Patricia Hess, as a friend of Amaryliss-Ann, applies her tonal qualities in a manner to give added gusto to the song "Snake Oil." An exotic Radcliffe enticer, Sheila Tobias whirls through "Mink on My Mind." Miss Tobias is smooth with her lines, although she appeared slightly embarrassed while enclosed in a barrel...

Author: By Cliff F. Thompson, | Title: Snake Oil | 3/12/1955 | See Source »

...cold in Florida that the mink stoles and silver-fox jackets were not just for show. But while the weather was cold, the betting was hot. Eleven miles as the helicopter flies from Miami's glossy, crowded ocean-front hotels stands spacious Hialeah, overrun by footsore fugitives from crammed Northern tracks. Last week Hialeah presented one of the biggest, CinemaScopiest spectacles to be found on any U.S. race track...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Drama at Flamingo Lake | 2/28/1955 | See Source »

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