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...novel by Nat Benchley, Ship is tautly run by Director Irving Brecher, and it carries a competent crew of supporting players: Robert Wagner, Dolores Hart, Frankie Avalon, Frank Gorshin. Naturally, the captain is always in charge. One minute he cheerily pours whisky on his Wheaties. The next, when the mink he gives the broad turns out to be hoked-up hamster, he screeches in outrage: "I'll sue the guy I stole it from!" And again, eying with some concern a low-back frock his honey has ladled herself into, he inquires thoughtfully: "Say, Virgie...
Some leaders of the new wave: ∙DOLORES WETTACH is lush, Lorenesque, and doubly foreign (her father is Swiss, her mother Swedish); she moved at the age of five from Switzerland to Flushing, N.Y., where her father set up a mink ranch. Now about 24 ("You learn not to be too exact"), Dolores was elected Miss Vermont in the 1956 Miss Universe contest, graduated in 1957 from the University of Vermont with a B.S. in nursing. While she was working as a nurse at Manhattan's Doctors Hospital, a sharp-eyed photographer saw beyond her heavy oxfords, asked...
...FURS: Mink coats always sell well for Christmas, but the trend this year is to small evening pieces, such as ascots ($80), short jackets ($595-$895) and stoles ($695). Lord & Taylor has a French sheared rabbit that is made to look like chinchilla ($695) and a sheared rabbit dyed bright red that looks like a sheared rabbit dyed bright...
...Munich's Briennerstrasse, the wealthy West German can buy anything from culture to divorce, a mink to a Mercedes. Yet many new-rich businessmen crave a far more elusive commodity-Weltstellung, or status in the world. At 12 Briennerstrasse, even this...
...fact-the book is full of superb sketches by Edward Gorey-is a fellow she met when he was an under graduate at Harvard. Now the mother of two teenagers, she was raised in Manhattan and educated at Vassar, once published a book of reminiscences of her childhood called Mink on Weekdays. She is in her fifth year of work on a novel ("Don't wait to read it, your life expectancy isn't that long"). But, as her professor husband might say, "writing is the opiate...