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...DELIA arrived in Alaska in 1948, worked for a while in Ketchikan, then drifted over to the Skwentna region, where he built a cabin and started trapping. Skwentna is good mixed-fur country-mink, marten, lynx, wolf, otter, beaver, muskrat. Fifteen years ago, trappers got good money for these pelts. Minks, for example, brought about $36 each; today Joe Delia is lucky to average $10. Lynxes, on the other hand, have improved. You can get $60 apiece-when you find one: the reproduction cycle has made this animal scarce...
Marianne Faithfull, 23, British singer-actress and daughter of Baroness Erisso of Austria, discovered how costly mink can be. The onetime girl friend of the Rolling Stones' Mick Jogger was caught last Christmas at London's Heathrow Airport trying to smuggle a $2,000 black mink coat in from Rome. In magistrates' court last week, the judge added $1,200 to the price...
Last week Governor Nelson Rockefeller signed two bills banning the sale of certain rare furs and hides in New York State. Manhattan Furrier Jacques Kaplan is keeping in step with public sentiment by showing mink furs treated to look like tiger and leopard skins in his fall collection. On the other hand, worried about the country's new environmental awareness, David Klapisch, vice president of Southern Trading Corp. (reptiles), complains that "conservation is good, but there has to be a limit...
...inexperienced two-legged friend. You, mink and sable, Strip the traps from the trail, so you don't harm your soul...
Erma does her writing in a tiny room, her electric typewriter near a mink-lined bucket stuffed with fan (and not-so-fan) letters. Some ask for recipes; though cooking is not her forte, she answers every request. "I lie a lot," she admits. "I grab a magazine, find a recipe and say, This is an old family favorite.' " When it comes to criticism, she thinks that her husband Bill is overly frank. But, in fact, she is her own toughest judge, seldom satisfied with what she writes and rewrites. "But on the days that you click," she says...