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...perfectly safe to be against socialism," he said. "But"-looking around at the orchids, mink and dinner jackets in the huge hall-"how in the world can the Republicans persuade people that all you Democrats ... are Socialists...
...construction industry: Texas cities have not only acquired new factories, but the high, clean shafts of new office buildings, bright-roofed acres of housing for the new industrial workers, and tree-shaded mansions for the new millionaires. Dallas has a Rolls-Royce agency; its fashionable Neiman-Marcus sells more mink than any store outside New York. There is fresh paint on farmhouses and new tractors grumble across the endless Texas land...
...whether flowers had been dispatched to the funeral of his good friend, Roger Sermon, mayor of Independence, Mo. Then it shifted to Washington's Episcopal Cathedral of St. Peter & St. Paul. There, on an unseasonably balmy afternoon, bareheaded Harry Truman and Bess, too warm in a mink cape and navy blue taffeta, tried in vain not to steal the show. They wanted to be as inconspicuous as any of the other 1,100 guests at the wedding of Treasury Secretary John Snyder's hearty, handsome daughter Edith ("Drucie") to John Ernest Horton, a personable former White House social...
Other protectors and detractors were gathering on all sides. Eleanor Holm Rose, who owns a $5,000 piece of Carol's show (given her for their tenth anniversary by husband Billy), had offered to help find (at wholesale) a mink coat suitable to her eminence. Even old friends in high places were paying Carol the new compliment of envy. A famous musical-comedy star who until recently thought Carol was "too cute for words" now greets her with a frosty, feline smile. Carol loves every bit of it. The only real cloud still left on her horizon...
...clock one morning last week, just seven months and a day after their wedding near Cannes, Rita gave Aly his cue, and Aly, in his own words, "blew up completely." Throwing away the script, he stopped long enough to get into his clothes and help Rita put a mink coat over her pajamas. Then he hustled her out of the four-room suite, through one of the hotel's side exits and into a black Buick. Aly took the wheel himself and roared off to the clinic two miles away...