Word: minks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From the first, Gaslight Square attracted a fair share of mink coats along with turtleneck sweaters and black stockings. Then the latter took on a different look as proprietors required customers to wear coats and ties. Says one cabaret owner: "We give a buck's worth of booze for a buck. And no strolling, lonely chicks. Once you start letting that happen, you are in for trouble." Today, the Square has no strippers, no gyp joints, lots of good clean gaslit...
Audiberti recently became a contributor to the Comédie Française, thus assuring himself of a sort of down payment on immortality. Used to stumer fare, the mink-and-diamond Comédie audience could hardly believe what they heard in Audiberti's play, The Ant in the Body...
...bright pink suit and a mink beret, Jacqueline Kennedy set out for Buckingham Palace and lunch with Queen Elizabeth II. "I'm feeling full of beans and very excited," she said. "It's a great honor." Afterward, pressed for further comment, she said diplomatically: "I am deeply honored to have been invited by the Queen to lunch. I thought the Queen's clothes were just lovely." Late that day-after a visit to an antique shop in London's Fulham Road, where she purchased 20 pieces of 18th century French and English china-Jackie headed home...
...novel by Nat Benchley, Ship is tautly run by Director Irving Brecher, and it carries a competent crew of supporting players: Robert Wagner, Dolores Hart, Frankie Avalon, Frank Gorshin. Naturally, the captain is always in charge. One minute he cheerily pours whisky on his Wheaties. The next, when the mink he gives the broad turns out to be hoked-up hamster, he screeches in outrage: "I'll sue the guy I stole it from!" And again, eying with some concern a low-back frock his honey has ladled herself into, he inquires thoughtfully: "Say, Virgie...
...whether Cushman would like to replace him in his $158,000-a-year job. It was quite a prospect: Sears, the giant Chicago-based retailing empire, counts one U.S. family in three among its customers. Last year it racked up sales of $4.5 billion on 140,000 items from mink coats to castration bands (for farm use). This week, in the Sears tradition that the outgoing chief taps his own successor, Kellstadt will submit Cushman's nomination to the board of directors. Approval by Sears's 160,000 stockholders next May is a foregone conclusion...