Word: minked
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...Harvard, in young Lodge's day, raccoon coats were the proper uniform, and he was embarrassed at wearing a mink-lined coat. He proposed to his grandfather that the mink-lined coat be sold so that he could buy two raccoon coats for himself and his brother John (now governor of Connecticut). Cabot Lodge rowed on class crews, belonged to literary clubs and the Cercle Français. He worked hard, and got his degree in three years. "I wanted to get going," he explains. "I wanted to be a newspaperman...
...Mink coats and deep freeze scandals won't win the election for the Republicans, the professors agreed, though they may help...
...Mink for the Throat. Now that she has become a successful madcap onstage, she is a more serious character when she is off. But she is still passionately fond of fishing and sailing, and runs off to the country whenever she can. Her life in Manhattan is an exacting round of lessons, rehearsals, fittings and photographs. She conscientiously answers her mail, and seldom" fails to get off a cheery quarterly letter to the Princess Patter, a mimeographed magazine published by her teen-age fan club (Bing Crosby, Shirley Temple, Risë Stevens, Jan Peerce are honorary members...
...past. Home is a roomy duplex apartment off Manhattan's Park Avenue, where her mother lives with her as companion, housekeeper and secretary. Patrice dresses well but not lavishly, and if she has a weakness for finery, it comes out at the furriers. Her wardrobe includes two mink coats, a mink cape and stole, a nutria coat, an ermine wrap, and a spare mink skin "to keep my throat warm...
TIME has mistaken for apathetic servitude youth's quiet and patient attempt to rebuild the world . . . Our elder statesmen are too busy spending their reclining years wintering in mink and summering in the deep freeze. So youth has decided that this generation must provide a "found generation" . . . The values that can't be taught to Presidents and politicians might be taught babies...