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About the nicest compliment Savo Radulovic ever got was a letter from a suburban housewife who came to see his paintings in a Philadelphia gallery last week. Before her visit, the lady wrote, her greatest ambition was to have "a mink stole and a sterling silver coffee service." Now, she would rather own a Radulovic...
...winds up in the usual litter of dead bodies and mass arrests. Since all the other characters are merely carbon copies from previous cops-and-robbers films, Gloria Grahame runs away with the picture by giving some complexity to her role of a female lush on the make for mink coats and high living...
Distant Pastures. Carnation's devotion to research has already led it far from its original pasture. As one of the West's biggest makers of animal feeds, its Albers Milling Co. Division sells a line of feeds for hogs, turkeys, chickens, mink and quail. It spent $1,000,000 to develop a dog food, Friskies, has rapidly branched out into cereals for humans, and soon may be making fertilizers and insecticides...
...career: the Sophie Tucker Golden Jubilee Testimonial. Driving up to the front door in a gilded 1903 Ford and rolling-into the Grand Ballroom like a great float (a 24-carat cloth-of-gold gown, a Mr. John hat with diamonds and foot-high white aigrettes, a white mink coat), Sophie sat down to a filet mignon dinner with some 1,700 admirers, who paid their way in with $165,000 for theatrical charities. It was really Sophie's 49th year in show business, but, as she happily explained in her rain-barrel bass: "Honey...
Died. (Michael) Maximilian, 58, Manhattan furrier who built up a $3,500,000-a-year business designing high-styled, high-priced mink and sable coats for women of wealth and fashion (Marlene Dietrich, the Duchess of Windsor, Doris Duke, et al.); after long illness; in Manhattan...