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Deadline-U.S.A. (20th Century-Fox) casts Humphrey Bogart as the crusading managing editor of a big-city daily whose actions are worthy of the most intrepid Hollywood hero. Bogart 1) tangles with an underworld vice czar, 2) roughs up a witness in a murder case involving the mink-clad body of the standard beautiful blonde, 3) wins a reprieve for his foundering, 47-year-old newspaper, the Day,* 4) wins back his divorced wife (Kim Hunter), 5) calls his publisher's old widow (Ethel Barrymore) "Baby...
...toasters, waffle irons and percolators (used) for 9^ each, a $500 Persian lamb coat for $15, reconditioned washing machines for $9. In nearby Alexandria a 1939 Plymouth went for 89^. A Mrs. E. M. Schott came from Youngstown, Ohio to buy two fur pieces, one a silver-blue mink scarf (price...
...California's biggest breeders is Los Angeles' Eugene J. Donovan, 47, a burly ex-Seabee who planned to go into mink farming after the war, then shifted to chinchillas in 1948 because he knew "there was a lot of green stuff in it." Starting with two pairs of animals, he built up his herd to 1,500 in two years by buying and breeding. He put up an $8,000 laboratory, opened seven retail outlets, started a 15-minute weekly television show to plug sales of breeding pairs, and waited for the green stuff to come in. Last...
...loss. But chinchilla men answer that the only pelts available for coats in recent years were poor ones from animals that had died from disease or old age. They argue that at the last big chinchilla auction in 1944, prices were about the same as for mink pelts, and they foresee a market for as many as 3,000,000 pelts a year...
...Wood has his own way of encouraging national expansion. He promised each of his four daughters a mink coat when she had her third child. To date, three of the daughters have collected. Wood has 15 grandchildren and one great-grandchild...