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Virtue believes in "the ancient verity of thrift" and wants to use the bank as a community resource. Vice (who comes equipped with a frigid wife and an effete son) cares only for profit. It is he who pushes a dangerously large loan to a multinational corporation at the expense of municipal bonds and local construction projects. Meanwhile, as background, Hailey provides a bank theft, a counterfeit-credit ring, extramarital affairs, race problems and a Robert Vescoesque corporate swindle...
...Chic. The jumpsuit, like most of the clothes in Russell's movies, was designed by his wife Shirley. She also collects thrift-shop gear, and Russell pictures are immediately recognizable by their raffish, démodé chic. Aesthetics aside, this practice also keeps down wardrobe costs. "I'd heard Russell was difficult to work with, went over the budget, that kind of thing," says Producer Stigwood, "but it isn't true." Tommy's budget of $3.5 million was probably more money than Russell had seen in some time. His last movies, The Boy Friend...
...painfully short most of last year. Deposits in savings and loan associations exceeded withdrawals by $3.1 billion during January. The new surge of money into S and Ls reflects in part the drop in interest rates on short-term investments like federal notes, which were attracting cash out of thrift institutions...
...chair from Choate School and John Jr.'s discarded desk. When the gallery owner went to select the furniture for the sale, he rejected several pieces. Disappointed, Jackie said: "I wish you'd take more. What's left I'm going to give to the thrift shop...
Treasure Chests. Secondhand shoppers are discovering that thrift shops are often treasure chests of remarkable goods. Coats with real mink collars are sometimes found among last year's ratty tweeds; Ming vases have been discovered on shelves next to neo-Woolworth butter dishes. Emily Cadra, manager of Everybody's, recalls the time a customer paid $4 for a small glass nut dish, then announced triumphantly that it was made by Steuben. Another customer returned to gloat that her 50? string of pearls had been resold for $50. Veterans of thrift shops generally agree that there is only...