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Wartime prosperity reared its bejewelled head in Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House last week. The new season opened with less than its usual quota of mink and diamonds, with slightly less than its usual quota of artistic quality, but with a record quota of enthusiasm. The newly prosperous, aided and abetted by soldiers and sailors on leave, not only jampacked the plush and gilt auditorium but indulged in ecstasies of applause. In fact, during the second night's Don Giovanni, indiscriminate applause became such a problem that Conductor George Szell had to shush his audience with threatening gestures...
Katherine Ralston Goodwin, who freely admits that she is oldest of the Nine (44), is director of WACs in the Army Service Forces. Before she joined the Corps she kept house in Hartford, Conn., tended her flower garden, zipped through murder mysteries and pampered her Siamese cat, "Ink Mink." When she leased her house she put a clause in the contract that the tenants would also have to care for Ink Mink...
...this process an imitation beaver coat retailing at about $150-less than one-fourth the cost of genuine beaver-can be made from shorn sheep pelts. Unshorn skins can be converted into longhaired "furs" such as fox, complete with silvery sheen. The manufacturers even talk of imitating mink. The synthetic furs are more durable than the genuine article...
...time to sit up and take notice. [He] is proposing a little island of socialism in a capitalistic country. ... A university, he says, is a 'consecrated community' [to] seek the salvation of men's minds. [Hutchins] wants to free professors from the pressure to pursue mink coats for their wives, or for somebody else's wives, and assure them a modest competence based on need...
Last week, the debate concluded, the Marquess of Hartington repaired to the Chelsea Registry Office, accompanied by his best man, the Duke of Rutland. Both wore Guards' uniforms and snug Sam Brownes. Fifteen minutes later Kathleen Kennedy arrived in delphinium pink suede crepe, a short mink jacket and a little hat of pink & blue ostrich feathers. Lieut. Joseph Kennedy Jr., U.S.N.R., came to give his sister away...