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...after Daughter Gloria cut off her $21,000 a year competence (TIME, March 25), carried out her threat to open a simply devastating Manhattan parfumerie. The gentlemen of the press outdid themselves in describing the new chateau of smell. Sample: "eggplant purple . . . with things like carved mirrors, Degas drawings, velvet divans . . . and tooled red leather desks, but simply teeming." Mother Gloria herself designed the coat of arms. Its blazon: 1) a turquoise horseshoe on a field royal blue; 2) two royal blue hearts pierced with a gilt arrow on a field turquoise; 3) a royal blue dancing girl rampant...
...object of this Elbert Hubbard rhapsody was Mrs. Mollie Netcher Newbury. He might better have compared her to Hetty Green. From her huge office, bare except for a big rolltop desk and green velvet couch, Mrs. Newbury had run Chicago's Boston Store for 42 years with a hand as firm as it was unknown. So doing, she had become a State Street legend...
Henry VIII believed that his new bride, Anne Boleyn, was comparable to the finest products of the royal orchards-"a wife with a strawberry breath, cherry lips, apricot cheeks, and a soft velvet head like a melicotton [peach]." But old Farmer Brocke insisted that the new Queen was actually the daughter of Old Nick, as was proved by the fact that she had a mole shaped like a strawberry on her white neck, and sometimes touched it with her left hand-on which grew a rudimentary sixth finger. Farmer Brocke believed that King Henry had married a witch...
...Como on radio's Chesterfield Supper Club. Soon she was rated the most-listened-to female vocalist and was the most frequently photographed sweater girl in radio. Her recording of Symphony sold 500,000 records. Her 1945 income: $125,000. She now tops all popular girl singers but velvet-voiced, $250,000-a-year Dinah Shore...
...16th Century Jesuit crossed the Channel in high spirits and in the gallant disguise-according to later charges-of "a velvet hat and a feather, a buff leather jerkin and velvet Venetians." For a full year Campion rode up & down the English counties, eluding the Queen's men, saying Mass in secret in Catholic houses. The Jesuits, Waugh says, "came with gaiety among a people where hope was dead...