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...Made Mink. Manhattan's Collins & Aikman Corp. will soon put on sale a synthetic mink, which it claims looks like the real thing from a few feet away. Composed of Du Pont's Orion, Union Carbide's Dynel and other synthetics, the phony mink gets its effect by combining both long and short hairs to imitate real mink, will come in several shades. Joining the company's synthetic beaver ("Cloud No. 9") and sealskin ("Kissing Cousin"), a coat will cost less than...
...more movie stars at CBS and NBC than at any [movie] studio." says Gossip Columnist Hedda Hopper. The TV set, once trimmed with skunk by a movie mogul who desired to show his contempt for the new medium, now can be ordered in mink from a Hollywood furrier. Even in the executive dining rooms of some of the movie studios that once swore war to the death against the invasion, television sets now play through lunch. These and many other signs suggest how television, with its voracious demand for stories, actors, film and filmmakers, has become the star...
...cost more than $200, and a child's battery-operated Mercedes-Benz for only $400 were all on sale last week along swank Rodeo Drive in California's Beverly Hills. But the most symbolic luxury item that is putting the bloom on the Hollywood boom is the mink-covered TV set ($950). TV has become the star of a new Hollywood, and the movies merely a supporting player. Items: ¶A single Hollywood TV show, NBC's daily Matinee Theater, hires 2,400 actors a year for speaking parts-50% more than the players used by Warner...
...Says Columnist Sidney Skolsky: "The nightclub business is dead, and there is just no place left in town, day or night, where you can count on finding a gathering of well-known movie people." As for fur-bearing TV sets, Teitlebaum has since filled orders to cover them in mink ("Of course, I left the screen showing...
...clear, but Husband Vivanco feelingly declared that one day last week a couple of private detectives came to the $60,000 love nest, where Yma no longer lives, roughed him up and threatened to shoot him. Next day photographers and reporters were on hand when mink-coated Yma and three private eyes turned up looking for her orchid-and-white Cadillac convertible and a few other trifles. Yma sang a raucous duet in Spanish and English with one of Vivanco's folk dancers, concluding it abruptly with a backhanded slap across the girl's face. Soon, with flashbulbs...