Word: raccoon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...usually lives at Manhattan's Plaza Hotel with her nanny, dog Weenie and turtle Skipperdee. Two years ago her devoted biographers, Nightclub Comic Kay Thompson and Illustrator Hilary Knight, described how she cut a rug at Maxim's in Paris. In this, her fourth appearance, Eloise dons raccoon coat and diplomatic pout to travel to Moscow, where Mommy has some vague connections with Americanski Embassyski. And here is the thing of it, as she would say: never before have those Red squares been exposed to anyone as hip as Eloise...
...demand is for old standbys such as polo and Chesterfield coats, but there is also a fad for kilt skirts and shaggy-dog coats. In Los Angeles the Smart Sixteen set is buying blankets for a sew-it-yourself skirt and blazer set. Most popular are clothes adorned with raccoon. Says Angela Kroll, buyer for Saks Fifth Avenue: "We can sell anything with raccoon." Best & Co. is doing a big business in detachable raccoon collars ($10.95 for a 14-in. Peter Pan collar, $15.95 for a 31 -in. shawl collar), and Chicago teen-agers are buying up sailor hats topped...
Tights and leotards have passed the fad stage, and some manufacturers report shipments running 30% ahead of last year. To go with the tights, stores are pushing boots with raccoon trim, corduroy or plaid coverings. Back-to-school teen-agers have also taken to some nonclothing fads. Among them: plastic-coated textbook covers with zany titles such as "Embalming Can Be Fun," by "Maude Lynn...
...Herter to catch a few days' secluded rest before taking over as Secretary of State. In bygone days at the 12,000-acre retreat (owned by Mrs. Herter's family, and called Cheeha-Combahee after two nearby rivers), Herter used to hunt duck, quail, deer, fox or raccoon from early to late. But years ago, osteoarthritis of the hip joints forced him to give up strenuous sports for such sedentary recreations as playing bridge (he once bid and made a grand slam with President-elect Dwight Eisenhower) and reading whodunits, a passion he shares with John Foster Dulles...
...agents across Canada on the lookout for mink. Even men coveted the Gunther's label. Gunther's long operated the only men's fur department in Manhattan, offering coats made of every kind of fur, from buffalo, favored by post-Civil War tycoons, to collegiate raccoon. But sables for the ladies inspired the legends. On Black Friday of the 1929 crash, Gunther's delivered a $70,000 sable coat to a customer, needlessly worried about payment (the customer settled in 60 days). Later it sold a shopper two sable coats, one for herself...