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Confronted for example, with the declaration: "Je suis furleux," they refuse to bother filling out any syntax forms. Instead, Taylor draws a man bearing four mink wraps, and Pearson smoothy translates the sentence...

Author: By Hiller B. Zobel, | Title: A Handy Misguide to French | 11/16/1950 | See Source »

...Promise Me ... In Detroit, Mrs. Mary Kapetansky won a divorce on her cross complaint that, among other things, her husband had fallen down on his pre-wedding promises to 1) move to Detroit's fashionable Palmer Woods, 2) buy her a mink coat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 23, 1950 | 10/23/1950 | See Source »

...minor inconveniences .as gasoline cards, tin-can drives or cigarettes flavored with coffee. The nation's production lines went on spewing out gleaming new automobiles, television sets and dish washers. The U.S. had seldom had more sugar, meat, steel, gasoline, whisky and nylon, or more manpower for the mink coat, bubble gum and trout-fly trades. Though prices were edging higher (in part because of unblushing profiteers), so was employment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Far from the Cannon's Roar | 8/28/1950 | See Source »

...Marcus specialty store, has scored many a scoop in the fashion business. Last year Neiman-Marcus rang up a tidy $800,000 profit by supplying wives & daughters of well-heeled Texans with hand-knit French girdles at $79.50, Italian silk handmade nightgowns with Trapunto embroidery at $150 and Aleutian mink coats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Here Comes Texas! | 7/31/1950 | See Source »

Married. Renee Carroll, fortyish, Manhattan's taffy-haired, mink-coated No. 1 hatcheck girl, since opening day in 1927 queen of the cloakroom at Sardi's restaurant; and Louis Schonceit, 50, Broadway ticket broker and show backer; he for the second time; in Cuernavaca, Mexico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 12, 1950 | 6/12/1950 | See Source »

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