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Despite last winter's slump, a prime lower Yukon mink still brought $35, a prime beaver blanket...
...people who saw him walking along the shore overlooking to bay. He was coat-less as usual; the thermometer read ten below. Mrs. Pound, who tells the story, was embarrassed to confess to the commiserators that the "poor man" was her husband, as she was swathed warmly in mink...
...Literature that "the specter of commercialism" was haunting U.S. literature, Author Caldwell (who is now vacationing in Paris and Rome) turned on him like a tigress. "My most 'lyrical prose,' " she retorted, "has resulted from the anticipation of big checks ... a new home, a trip, or a mink coat. The profit motive cannot be removed from an artist...
...game of gin rummy, had overlooked a blaze in the bedroom. The visiting fireman (in dinner jacket, black tie) fell to "with a will for five minutes," it was reported, helped hotel employees drag a hose to the conflagration. Too late: the Baroness' $2,000 mink was just a pile of singed hair...
Hard to Market. In 1923, a U.S. engineer named M. F. Chapman brought eleven chinchillas to California where they became the progenitors of practically all U.S. chinchillas. They proved not excessively hard to raise. They live on cheap vegetables rather than expensive meat. Unlike mink, they do not tear one another to bits. They have no unpleasant odor nor do they bite the hand that feeds them. In their wild state, the males are monogamous; but on the fur ranch, they can be persuaded into polygamy. A female can produce three annual litters of one to five offspring...