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...resort beach wear, Model Jane Waiting's dachshund took a few turns around the floor with a black lace bikini bottom and a purple beach robe with yellow trim. Really putting on the dog was Designer Ursula Lehnhardt, who wrapped her poodle Peppy in white mink and a collar studded with black dice, and Designer Larry Reiter, who dressed his wolfhound Czarina in silver lame and his whippet Isis in a $250 wild marabou coat dyed in bands of blue, purple, pink and orange...
...nightcap only to find that sheriff's deputies had got there first, smashed the liquor-cabinet door with a sledge hammer, and carted off all the whisky, wine and gin to the Hinds County Courthouse. "Paul, can't you do something about this?" a lady in mink beseeched Johnson. "I made my stand, I took my chance," the Governor responded, dryly...
Smart pawnbrokers spotted the trend a few years ago and set about changing their image. Manhattan's Kaskel's, which now calls itself a "loan broker," looks more like a high-fashion department store with its mink-draped mannequins and velvet-lined jewelry display cases. "We have customers who earn as much as $250,000 a year, and the majority earn more than $10,000," boasts Owner Richard Kaskel...
...Virtually overnight, Lewis' fee has soared from $2,500 to $6,500 for a one-week club date. "I'm doing things I never dreamed I'd be doing." Things like buying a new ten-room town house on Chicago's South Side, a mink coat for his wife, a $5,000 Steinway, like enrolling three of his school-age children (he has five) in a private school. As a result, he is Out with the In jazz crowd, who accuse him of "going commercial." Lewis could not care less. "Apparently they identify poverty with sincerity...
...Well, not all. Such other delightful images as Julie Christie and Geraldine Chaplin paraded into Broadway's Capitol theater for the premiere of Doctor Zhivago, but the crowd saved the rave for Sophia, who didn't even play in the picture. She just tagged along in white mink cape and Dior gown with Producer Carlo Ponti, her once and future husband. In all the crush, Sophia and Carlo were beaming because of some moral support they'd got from the French government the day before. Carlo, a new-vintage French citizen, obtained a Paris divorce from...