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...Capp, Henry Morgan, Max Shulman, and Ira Wallach will discuss "What's Funny Today?" in the third Law School Forum tonight at 8 p.m. in the Rindge Technical High School. Felicia Lamport, author of "Mink on Weekdays (Ermine on Sundays)," will be the moderator...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "What's Funny?" 4 Humorists Ask In Forum Tonight | 10/24/1952 | See Source »

...bares a toothy smile, he lights up the TV screen like rhinestone jewelry. Last week hardworking Parks added Double or Nothing (Mon., Wed., Fri., 2 p.m., CBS-TV) to the list of giveaway shows (Stop the Music, Break the Bank) on which he has given away yachts, swimming pools, mink coats, scholarships and round-the-world cruises with all the abandon of a politician passing out cigars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Fun in the Living Room | 10/20/1952 | See Source »

...York's Barium Steel Corp. and two subsidiaries, Central Iron & Steel and Phoenix Iron & Steel, a whacking $1,011,-123.63. It was by far the biggest OPS fine yet levied. It was also another black eye for Central Iron & Steel whose activities had figured in Washington's mink-coat scandal a year and a half...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: PRICES | 10/20/1952 | See Source »

...profit. Said he: "[The sale] was simply a payoff, and somebody made $75,000 for doing nothing." Control of the corporation was held in option by Lawyer Rosenbaum, who denied the charges, and by ex-RFC Employee E. Merl Young. His wife, a White House secretary, was given a mink coat for which Rosenbaum paid the bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: PRICES | 10/20/1952 | See Source »

...sure enough, the fellow would be in your office asking for something." He was not above indicating that he was only human and perhaps foolish. There was that matter of the $5,000 commission he picked up for selling an airplane. There was his wife's famed mink coat. "My wife loved that coat," he drawled. "She loved it and petted it like a firstborn child. Now, the pore thing, she'll never put it on again. I think she sold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: The Mess (Continued) | 10/6/1952 | See Source »

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