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...with Queen Ingrid, the Princesses Anne-Marie, 6, Benedikte, 8, and Margrethe, 12, posed for a family portrait wearing souvenir gifts from their recent visit to Greenland. The King wore a white Anorak, a soft cotton turtleneck shirt; the Queen and her daughters modeled Kamikker boots and pearl-embroidered sealskin dresses...
...during an era that launched such merchant tycoons as John Wanamaker, Louis Bamberger, Marshall Field and David May, Cleveland's Samuel Halle and his brother Salmon put $10,000 into a modest fur store specializing in sealskin caps. A dozen expansions have built Halle Brothers Co. into a $39 million-a-year business, and left 82-year-old Samuel Halle the last survivor of the big-name U.S. department-store pioneers. Last week key employees surprised spry Co-Founder Halle with a 60th anniversary luncheon and the gift of a leather desk set -which he can use daily...
...Sealskin in the Bathtub. The world has never been notably sane, but it exists under the convention that it is-just as in certain families there is an agreement not to notice that a "peculiar" aunt wears three hats to the breakfast table and a sealskin coat in the bathtub. Waugh's world simply ignores that convention. Lunacy is its norm, evil is without guilt, pain without pathos, and tragedy is comedy. Yet, in lucid intervals, the real world and Waugh's world are seen in part to be one. The degree to which they are so measures...
Another damper was the lack of good fur, real wool. French ingenuity did its best. Rabbits became everything up to ermine and chinchilla. Cats, rats, moles were tinted and tortured into sealskin and beaver. But Parisians faced a cold winter without much coal. Said the Chicago Daily News' correspondent Helen Kirkpatrick: "If some enterprising couturier could acquire an unlimited supply of wool . . . the most popular collection would be one showing woolen underwear...
Worse than the police was the cold prison. Young had nothing to sit down on but the damp cell floor. At last Ambassador Grew sent Young his sealskin-lined overcoat. Grew is over six feet tall; Young, much shorter. When Young turned up the coat collar, he was covered from head to foot. Young soon discovered that the Ambassador's coat gave him a certain diplomatic immunity. "As long as I had it on, the police would recognize it as Ambassador Crew's property. Removed, I was just another reporter." Young never took it off, wore it even...