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Regarding your March 2 article "Preview for the Prophet": Since when has the will of God been for men such as "Prophet" Jones to delude the minds of people to such an extent that they purchase him $3,900 Lincolns and $12,900 white mink coats...
Taxpayer's Blessing. Byrd's confidence seemed well grounded. Treasury Secretary George Humphrey, believes that RFC has long outlived its usefulness. Missouri's freshman Democratic Senator, Stuart Symington, the man who put RFC back on its feet after the mink coat and Lustron scandals of 1951 (TIME, Feb. 12, 1951 et seq.), is not expected to come to the agency's defense. Even enthusiastic RFC backers might go along in the liquidation if some other agency e.g., the Federal Reserve, were to take over the RFC function of small-business loans...
...spinsters' brother, Sterling, promptly bought the Prophet a $3,900 Lincoln as a token of gratitude. The two women decided to give him something even more wonderful-a full-length let-out white mink coat with a raglan flare-back, shawl collar, scarlet silk lining and deep flap pockets lined with velvet. This took some time. The girls had to scrape up $2,000 for a down payment and agree to pay off the total price of $12,900 plus carrying charges at a rate of $475 a month. The astounded New York furrier who was commissioned...
Double Mozzarellas. Her managers keep her on an allowance, but she has managed to slake part of her thirst for furs (including a $7,000 Aleutian mink coat after the success of Come On-a My House), to keep a three-bedroom house in Beverly Hills and share an apartment in Manhattan's dressy Hampshire House with Jacqueline Sherman, 27, a well-to-do Chicago girl who is her friend, duenna and general chief of staff. On free evenings, she hits the theater and nightclub circuit like any other customer (current steady escort: Actor José Ferrer...
...went off to the Women's House of Detention anyhow, thereby reproving the district attorney's old saw: the primrose path leads but to the pokey. Diane's case seemed to suggest, however, that a girl could pick up a lot of mink and diamonds...