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...York's LaGuardia Field lay dreary and grey under a pelt of snow. In mid-afternoon 95 chattering, winter-clad passengers deposited themselves impatiently aboard Northeast Airlines' 2:45 p.m. flight to Miami, strapped themselves in their seats and settled back to contemplate the prospects of frolicking in the 80° warmth of Miami Beach-just four airline hours away, they thought...
Energy, in fact, is the essence of this picture; the audience is not merely stimulated, it is all but electrocuted. Even the huge CinemaScope screen seems hardly big enough to carry the mass scenes. And yet, through the pelt of colors and the whirl of action, Carmen herself holds the eye-like a match burning steadily in a tornado. Actress Dandridge employs to perfection the method of the coquette: by never giving more than she has to, she hints that she has more than she has given-and sometimes even more than she really has to give...
Last week the boom met its first real test at the first chinchilla auction. Farmers Chinchilla Cooperative of America, which had staged a pre-auction fashion show, put 10,600 pelts up for sale in Manhattan. The first lot sold for $175 a pelt, but prices quickly drifted down to $25, considered the break-even point. When they dropped to $11, the remaining lots were withdrawn. The 2,760 pelts sold were only enough for about 60 jackets...
Their fur was their undoing. At one time it sold for as high as $2,500 a pelt, and hunters slaughtered the sea otters...
...Taylor, president of West India Fruit and Steamship Co. of Norfolk, Va.; Frederick Lewisohn, New York Stock Exchange member; Richard M. Moss, president of Clinton Foods, Inc. of Manhattan; Mrs. Wallace; Eugene C. Pulliam, publisher of the Indianapolis Star,and News; Orville Taylor, Chicago attorney; Andrew Van Pelt of Philadelphia, Alleghany Corp. director; William...