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Warmth and Style. "It is the young," according to Furrier Jacques Kaplan, "who are making furs an up-front fashion. They do not want status, just warmth and style." With youth in mind, and to revive a market that dropped 40% in sales between 1947 and 1967, Kaplan branched out into inexpensive furs like mink paw, fitch and squirrel. When they caught on, he went farther still-this year into wildcat, Spanish bull and monkey...
...luck of the draw, Penn got the up-front position in the staggered start. At the gun, the Quakers came off at 39 strokes per minute to take a two seat lead in the first five pulls. The much higher-stroking Crimson got away at about...
...clapping his hands over the earholes of an offensive player's helmet. Another is the karate chop, delivered with a beefy forearm encased in layers of tape. "You try not to let it get too personal," says Defensive End Sam Williams of the Atlanta Falcons. "But what the up-front struggle really amounts to is an angry, private little war between two people...
Emperor, Then Tyrant. Last week, Composer Still's determination paid off. He sat nervously but happily in an up-front orchestra seat while a sell-out New York City Opera Company audience saw the first performance of a Still opera...
...coverage of Dunkirk and Dieppe was so good that Raymond Daniell, chief of the Times's London Bureau, hired him away. Daniell sent him to North Africa, where Middleton's analysis of the tangled Darlan-Giraud crisis was from the first surprisingly mature and shrewd. His up-front combat stories showed a reportorial eye, a literary...