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Felicia Lamport lives in Cambridge. She has published Scrap Irony, a volume of light verse, and Mink on Weekdays, an account of her childhood in New York. Some of the pieces below have appeared in Harper's and McCall's, and will be included in another book of verse to be published soon by Houghton-Mifflin...
...location is not to be believed: the ground floor of Manhattan's Bergdorf Goodman at 2 a.m. But outside stands her manager liveried like a footman; so naturally, after she comes whirling in through the door, she plays a newsboy - in white mink knickers. And then she's grabbing all those crazy hats, or vamping around the showcases like Mata Hari, or suddenly taking a Spanish caprice to dance all over Bergdorf's minks. It sounds like Breakfast at Bergdorf's but its real title is My Name Is Barbra, an hourlong, one-girl...
...Gilbert called it a momentous occassion, noting that it was the first time Chagall and Radcliffe had gotten together. The art critics said the paintings were a relief from soup cans and dots. A mink-covered matron decided to buy one to replace an old Chagall she feared had grown unfashionable...
...JOAN K. MINK Danbury, Conn...
...straight bourgeois background, she has propelled herself to the point where she is now the wife of a fashionable Roman architect and mother of a three-year-old boy ("An earthquake; he's so handsome"), can afford to collect shoes (70 pairs) and furs (14, including six mink), drive a Maserati and learn to fly. Best of all, having been discovered abroad, she finds herself big box office at home...