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First came Prophet Jones's 26 pieces of luggage, containing some of his 400 suits and his $12,900 white mink coat (TIME, March 2). Then, with an entourage including two valets, two secretaries, a hairdresser, two bodyguards and a cook, came Prophet James F. Jones himself. When about 15 yards separated him from Father Divine and his blonde wife, Mother Divine (in a mink jacket and orchid corsage), the ecstatic faithful piled in around them, crying, "Peace, peace-it's wonderful, wonderful!" A long-armed policeman was helpless to restore order. Then Father Divine raised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Cosmic Lubritorium | 9/21/1953 | See Source »

Despite the heat of Texas, Stanley Marcus has personally sold $5,000,000 worth of mink coats, and he claims that the store sells more than any other store on earth. But he once refused to sell an oilman a mink coat for his 16-year-old daughter starting school in the East because it would not be appropriate, instead persuaded him to buy a $295 muskrat. He also sees to it that Neiman's stocks many items his customers might need in an emergency, e.g., a set of Steuben crystal plates with Mexico's crest "because sooner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FASHIONS: Mr. Stanley Knows Best | 9/21/1953 | See Source »

...Anxiety. In Tulsa, Okla., Mink Breeder Everett J. Dillon, filing a claim against the city for $6,736, charged that construction of a sewer line across his property had made his minks nervous, reduced the number of their offspring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 3, 1953 | 8/3/1953 | See Source »

...number entitled The Little Girls from Little Rock. From then on, the picture is so busy leering at Marilyn and Jane that it never gets around to being much of a picture. The result, while still fun, is a burlesque of burlesque, a kind of Minsky in mink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 27, 1953 | 7/27/1953 | See Source »

...Heaven and Ike's in the White House and has a commendable score in golf and a long string of trout ... To many, shocked by the deep-freeze-mink-coat-elec-tion-campaign mess, it should now be regrettably obvious that the electorate sacrificed Abe Lincoln Stevenson for General Ulysses Grant Eisenhower. Everybody likes Ike, but not everything and everybody that Ike likes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 6, 1953 | 7/6/1953 | See Source »

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