Word: minked
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...lets the caretaker and his wife do the chores. "The extent of my help," he gags, "is when I hold a chicken while someone doses it with an eye dropper." Usually he spends his time horseback riding, fishing in his lake or playing catch with his son. When mink began to eat his fish recently, the caretaker trapped the mink, and they are being made into a neckpiece for Mrs. Patterson...
...bright spot of the first program (none too bright despite the high-octane foolishness of guest star Bob Hope) was Evelyn's choice phrasing of The Toorie on His Bonnet, Her mink-soft voice is as calculatedly intimate as a dropped shoulder strap. But voice, as many a supper-clubman knows, isn't the half of Evelyn. The rest is the allure which she exudes as unfailingly as a perfume factory...
...presentation of Oscars - Hollywood's annual pat on the back to itself-has to be seen to be believed. TIME Correspondent Dwight Whitney, who saw it last week, fought his way through acres of diamonds, mink and glossy black limousines to report...
...auto accident in which he killed two people, lost his plea for parole (he said he had pyorrhea and a bum knee), went back to tending sheep. When fire broke out in the radio of her husband's private plane, Cinemadventuress Veronica Lake smothered it with her mink coat, was forced to appear in furs borrowed from a friend. Frank Sinatra was bedded in Acapulco, Mexico, with intestinal trouble and a high fever. Crooner Dick Haymes went to bed for a week with sinus trouble. Trombonist Jack Teagarden, whose theme song is I've Got a Right...
Other store basements sell only low-priced items, which may or may not be bargains. Filene's basement sells only bargains, not all of them low-priced. It has sold $4,250 mink coats for $1,950. It once bought pipes with flanges on the stem, sold them to men without teeth. Its corset department does its fittings in the aisles, but it sells some 260,000 corsets a year...