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Ginger Rogers, rehearsing for Hollywood's version of Broadway's psychoanalytical Lady in the Dark, slipped into $6,000 worth of mink...
...Cornelius Vanderbilt stayed home with a cold. Mrs. George Washington Kavanaugh and Lady Decies were, as usual, solidly barnacled with jewelry. Lucius Beebe, who had condescended to the wartime informality of a black tie, apologized: "I feel as naked as a jay bird." Somebody stole a mink coat while its owner, the wife of a South American diplomat, was not looking. It was said that Lily Pons had lost an emerald. An air-raid warden, in a tuxedo, white arm band and white steel helmet, wandered around the lobby announcing a blackout. "The most individual and interesting performer," averred...
...Acquired a wardrobe of 40 suits, 20 shirts, 25 ties, half a dozen pairs of shoes, two mink-lined topcoats, three gold cigaret cases valued at $700 apiece, a star sapphire ring ($1,200), high yellow button shoes for race meetings, an 18-carat, 110-penny-weight watch chain 17 inches long; and from his writings, endorsements...
...pursued his researches further with pheasants, starlings, weasels, goats, mink and raccoons. By regulating the amount of light they got each day, he made raccoons bear two litters a year instead of one, made goats breed in summer instead of winter, induced pheasants, which normally lay their eggs in April, to lay them on the snow in midwinter. By the same means, he fooled minks into growing a rich brown winter pelt in summer and shedding in winter, made weasels change their coats from brown to white and back to brown again most unseasonably...
Personnel Relations. Mrs. William Burns of Newark advertised desperately for a maid, offered her the use of a mink coat on her days off, got a maid all right-after receiving 600 phone calls in two days...