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...over a decade her name has been little more than a memory borne on the elusive scent of a perfume now made by someone else. Yet, during the 1920s, when Paris was still the uncontested capital of haute couture, the unchallenged queen regnant of Paris fashion was petite, disdainful Gabrielle ("Coco") Chanel. A bored, restless, country-bred orphan who fled to the city at 17 with no capital beyond her native Auvergnate shrewdness, Chanel had parlayed a flair for simple elegance into a million-dollar fashion business whose headquarters was the distinctive salon at 31 Rue Cambon, Paris...
...Scent of magnolia, sweet and fresh...
There were other details to be thought of as well. It would be necessary, Bedrich reckoned, to line their traveling space with tar paper, to throw sniffing police dogs off the scent. They would need an escape hatch in the floor of the car, and a system of air vents to prevent suffocation. In case this failed to work, son Marian promised to provide a tank of oxygen from the lumberyard machine shop. During the next five months, while Marian checked him in daily on the lumberyard time clock, Bedrich Cech made four exploratory trips checking train times and routes...
...England, fox hunting is a ready-made pastime. The tidy, trim fields and meadows offer running space for hound and horse, arid tricky as the fox is, he cannot disguise his scent, which hangs heavy in England's damp countryside. Transplanted to the U.S., the sport has become even sportier-for the fox-as was demonstrated last week at Fort Campbell, Ky., where some 700 hunters and 300 hounds gathered for the 60th National Fox Hunters' Association Field Trials. The 100,000-acre military reservation was tinder-dry with just 3 in. of rain since June; though both...
Some of the hounds "babbled," i.e., bayed before the scent was picked up, and were promptly disqualified. Others were tossed out for "running cunning," i.e., working the wrong trail. Despite the dust that clogged hounds' noses and dissipated scents, the Futurity event (for pups whelped in 1952) was a success: two greys killed, a red cornered. The winner: Coburn Hill King, owned by Mrs. Clyde Smith of Peculiar...