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...Valley. For this occasion, Marilyn wore what she calls her "disguise." This consisted of a Venetian gondolier's brown straw hat with white band, smoked glasses, no makeup at all, a man's heavy black sweater, grey striped trousers, high heels and a floor-length mink coat...
...classes and their capitalist dominators is widening at a greater rate than it ever has. "As Marx predicted," she emphasized, "the workers alone have the ambition to improve the lot of their nation and their fellow men, while all the capitalists wish to do is to walk around with mink coats on their backs...
...Mink on the Bed. As a businesswoman, Hattie was as shrewd as she was stylish. She knew intuitively when to extend credit and when to collect bills (she once successfully sued the late Jimmy Walker for his wife's unpaid $12,059 balance). She often quite literally sold the clothes off her back to eager customers, but would never allow a woman to buy a dress that seemed unsuitable. Her surplus energy spilled into other businesses, all of them successful: hats, jewelry, antiques, perfumes-even chocolate candy. By last year Hattie Carnegie Inc. was doing a gross business...
Hattie Carnegie was a temperamental whirlwind, who loved the glittering world she lived in, doted on poker, slot machines and canasta. Her Fifth Avenue duplex was serenely elegant, from the gold-plated fixtures in her bathroom to the crepe-dechine sheets and mink coverlet on her bed. Lunching at the Pavilion, sweeping into the opera or arriving in Paris, Hattie was always a conversation-stopper. Her domestic life was sometimes hectic: after two brief and capricious marriages, she finally settled down with Major John Zanft, a childhood sweetheart from the East Side. "I've had three husbands," she often...
...when Zorin went to New York as chief Soviet delegate to the U.N., he wore plain grey business suits and horn-rimmed spectacles, and gold flashed in his smile. Said a newsman: "He could pass for a middle-aged banker at an executives' convention." Plain Mrs. Zorin wore mink. Despite such appearances, Zorin's attacks on the U.S. were ruthless and uncompromising...