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...Fred Astaire took a look at sister-in-law Adele's new mink coat and commiserated: "Too bad it isn't female." A little research on mink sex convinced Adele (Mrs. Kingman Douglass) that the skins of female minks really are more delicate and finer looking. "My sister-in-law wasn't unfriendly," she explained. "Her coat is more beautiful than mine, and . . . hers is female, mine. male. Now I hate mine and I'm going to have it cut up for lining a cloth coat...
...market nutria ranks somewhere between muskrat and mink-$1,400 to $1,700 for a full-length coat. But so far, domestic pelts have not been too successful. U.S. trappers do not know much about preparing them. The Wildlife Service hopes that the quality will improve as trappers get nutria-wise. In any event, the nutria will be a welcome immigrant. Unlike many furbearers, most of which (e.g., skunks) are carnivorous, its flesh is pink and good to eat. A carcass prepared for cooking weighs about eight pounds. Some compare it to rabbit. When roasted, say other connoisseurs...
...techniques are still varied and far from smooth. Some telecommercials are as outdated as the nickelodeon's between reel slides: static, leering mink-coat models or unwinking concentration on a bar of soap. Some are working along promising lines: most admen admire Lucky Strike's cartoons and its battalion of animated, marching cigarettes...
...mother, sold twlve-foot trees at $1 retail, to "make Christians out of Christmas-tree dealers," he explained. He had sold 50,000 trees wholesale, and figured that within a few years he would be selling 100,000 a year. Following precept with example, Elliott & wife Faye (in a mink coat and jodhpurs) juiced up the sales by doing some hawking in person-and got rid of 500 trees...
...Manhattan, Gimbels was doing a good business in grand pianos and $4,000 mink coats. Cartier was having no trouble selling superexpensive jewelry. Example: a three-strand diamond necklace with matching earrings for $29,000. Capehart de luxe record players were in demand at $1,595. Many a shopper took expensive Lionel electric trains ($22.50 to $75) in preference to cheaper sets. Everywhere, luxury items vanished rapidly from store counters...