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...other popular passion is peek-a-boo mink. Couturiers advise a "blush of mink" to peek out from cuffs and high necks. A pelt or two in an "exciting" spot will turn the trick...

Author: By Laurence D. Savadove, | Title: Insect Theme Dominates Fashions With 'Ant' Look | 9/15/1952 | See Source »

...color of the season, furriers now offer pink mink, lavendar lamb, cerese seal, and blue beaver. And the clouche is the clue to top notch top nobbing...

Author: By Laurence D. Savadove, | Title: Insect Theme Dominates Fashions With 'Ant' Look | 9/15/1952 | See Source »

...Democrats to pick Stevenson. He was selected in spite of rather than because of the fact that he is a new face with a new line of talk. What the real leaders of the Democratic Party wanted was a man who could repair the North-South damage and the mink-coat damage of the Truman regime and thereby put the party back where it was when Franklin Roosevelt died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: To the Future | 8/4/1952 | See Source »

Despite the great material prosperity, Americans are not feeling smug. Their grousing may spring from something deeper than the price of steak (or mink). They may sense that the future depends on how the U.S. plays its part in the world crisis and that this, in turn, depends on what goes on inside the U.S. A better American life-and not merely what the Democrats mean by better-could resolve the international deadlock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: To the Future | 8/4/1952 | See Source »

...years the Democrats have carried the nation with slogans of soaking the rich and championing the underdog. In 1952, they hope to do it again. But things have changed: now the villagers as well as the rich get soaked by taxes, and Maid Marian's mink coats have caused comment in the greenwood. There is a feeling that Robin has not been smart about the Communists, and Little John Acheson's foreign policy has caused fear for the future. Above all, Herbert Hoover is not Sheriff of Nottingham this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Robin Hood & Arithmetic | 7/28/1952 | See Source »

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