Word: minked
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...Waldorf-Astoria, more than 1,000 people jammed the Grand Ballroom for an Overseas Press Club luncheon, with women in mink heavily outnumbering the working newsmen. "Is she 40?" asked one matron, marveling at the youthful appearance of the tiny figure on the dais. "I can't believe it." (She is 39.) Commented another, "You don't have nails like that and do much around the house...
...Arlene Francis has a baby in the back seat of a Rolls-Royce stalled in a Manhattan traffic jam on-of course-the upper East Side; the doctor, who arrives on horseback, swaddles the infant in a fresh copy of the New York Times, then bundles it in a mink lap robe...
...many mistresses, and in October 1960, he set up Mandy Rice-Davies, Christine's sometime roommate, in a West End apartment complete with a two-way bedroom mirror and a tape recorder beneath the bed. "In our two happy years," said Mandy later, "he gave me a mink coat, three mink jackets, a Persian lamb jacket, three diamond brooches, two pairs of diamond and ruby earrings, a big gold diamond and ruby watch, two diamond rings, and a Jaguar. For my 18th birthday, he gave me ?1,000 in cash...
...Lithuania, plays a half-Russian, half-Chinese photographer in Tokyo who wants to go to the U.S. France Nuyen, who was born in Marseille of a French mother and a Chinese father, plays Tamiko, a highborn Japanese girl who wants Harvey. Martha Hyer, who is as American as a mink-lined raincoat in July, also wants Harvey, and so does Miyoshi Umeki, an honest-to-Buddha Japanese, who plays a Ginza B-girl...
...hunters mostly used a supply of 300,000 poisoned meatballs-about one for every six or eight rats believed to be in the Ginza. Exterminators bugged ratholes with tiny microphones so as to detect enemy strongholds. They also planted extra-strong traps that are normally used to trap mink, since Ginza rats are a special samurai breed that can usually chew through a conventional trap. The hunters had no illusions about their foe. "The Ginza rats are terribly clever," said one old rodent fighter. "You can't just leave a meatball by a rathole and expect them...