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Britain's Princess Margaret laid aside her mink coat, put on a white overall and helmet, descended a quarter-mile into a coal mine near Nottingham. Chipping off a lump of coal with a pickax, she said: "I'll have to get this mounted!" When a cutting machine wafted some coal dust into her mouth, the miners beamed as the princess cried, "It tastes delicious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 19, 1954 | 4/19/1954 | See Source »

...pink with a diamond tiara, held court in a bower of pink flowers. Said she, as the new day dawned and the icy swans began to melt a bit: "If I had known it was going to be so cold, I would have had the tents draped with pink mink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 29, 1954 | 3/29/1954 | See Source »

...tribulations of three secretaries and a schoolteacher. But, in refreshing contrast to real life, the girls are seldom asked to do much work. On Private Secretary, blonde Cinemactress Ann Sothern occasionally pecks at a typewriter, but mostly she is shown trading wisecracks with her boss (Don Porter), getting mink and sable coats from the firm's clients or having her superior business acumen vindicated (dumb as the girls are, they are all far brighter than the men who employ them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Working Girls | 2/8/1954 | See Source »

...entertain her guests! joined Cinemactor Gary Cooper on a big-game safari into the African jungle, with the late Mobster Bugsy Siegel set out in a schooner to search for a buried treasure off Costa Rica. When death came, the Countess was in full re galia: a full-length mink coat covered her, $500,000 worth of jewels were on her person and in her luggage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 18, 1954 | 1/18/1954 | See Source »

...crew has most of its riffs written out for it. Nevertheless, old favorites such as One O'Clock Jump sound pretty much the way they used to. All he had to do to bring them up to post-bop fashion, says the Count, was "to put mink coats on the chords...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Big-Band Jazz | 1/11/1954 | See Source »

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