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Treasure Chests. Secondhand shoppers are discovering that thrift shops are often treasure chests of remarkable goods. Coats with real mink collars are sometimes found among last year's ratty tweeds; Ming vases have been discovered on shelves next to neo-Woolworth butter dishes. Emily Cadra, manager of Everybody's, recalls the time a customer paid $4 for a small glass nut dish, then announced triumphantly that it was made by Steuben. Another customer returned to gloat that her 50? string of pearls had been resold for $50. Veterans of thrift shops generally agree that there is only...
...always thought I would marry the barefoot pregnant wife-I am an Italian, after all. But that's not how it turned out." Catania quickly adds: "I have no real complaints." In some cases, political husbands have enjoyed unforeseen boons from their wives' careers. When Patsy Mink, 46, was elected to Congress from Hawaii in 1964, her husband John quit his job as a hydrologist with the Honolulu Board of Water Supply, won a fellowship to Johns Hopkins University and later joined a Washington-based scientific consulting firm that regularly sends him to the Pacific basin...
...financial burden. With Ike on the verge of dropping him, Nixon proved equal to his first real crisis. On radio and television, he insisted that the fund was used for political and not personal expenses, that he was a man of modest means whose wife did not wear mink but "a respectable Republican cloth coat," and that yes, there was one gift he was going to keep - a black and white cocker spaniel named Checkers. Though many found "the Checkers speech" full of cant and treacly sentimentality, the flood of favorable telegrams persuaded Eisenhower to execute a smart about-face...
Special Showings: Buster Keaton's The Navigator is playing for free at sundown tonight at the MFA. Gutman Library is showing Terry-Thomas's hysterical Make Mine Mink Thursday night...
Jones' piling up of detail, which at times has overweighted his novels, proves quite an asset in this journal. He has a nose for those human quirks that override ideology. He notes that the clerks' coatroom at the South Vietnamese consulate in Paris is filled with mink coats. He notices that an officer is wearing an unauthorized third dog tag that reads, "If you are recovering my body,-you." He tunes in on a Vietnamese girl, who learned her English from a black G.I., as she tells of her gruesome experiences during the Tet offensive in the funky...