Word: chinchilla
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...consistent winner on the playing fields of Hollywood, where he dazzled Zsa Zsa Gabor, Kim Novak and Joan Collins with chinchilla, Mercedes-Benz convertibles and diamond bracelets, Lieut. General Rafael ("Ramfis") Trujillo Jr., 29, lost a somewhat less entrancing war in Kansas. From the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, which Ramfis attended in between nightclub-commando exercises, came the word: the young general "did not successfully complete the course." Lest Ramfis lose himself in remorse, kindly Uncle Héctor Trujillo, figurehead President of the Dominican Republic, provided a nice nongraduation present: appointment...
...opposed to $600,000 earmarked under the bill for Dictator Rafael Trujillo's Dominican Republic, especially as, at the very same time, Rafael Trujillo Jr. was spending a bit of his $600,000 annual allowance on a $5,500 Mercedes-Benz and a $17,000 chinchilla coat in the U.S. for Cinemagyar Zsa Zsa Gabor (TIME, May 19). Predicted Ohio's Hays, with spade-calling confidence in his congressional immunity: "If he keeps on fooling around with Zsa Zsa Gabor, who apparently is the most expensive courtesan since Madame de Pompadour,* the old man is going to have...
...mistress of Louis XV of France for nearly 20 enduring years, Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson d'Etioles, Marquise de Pompadour, boasted no Mercedes-Benz or chinchilla coats, but managed to spend before her death at 42 an estimated 36 million francs on gowns, jewels, furniture, art work and seven estates, including the Palais de 1'Elysee in Paris, today the home of the Presidents of France...
...them. At a Los Angeles foreign-car agency, where he bought a $12,000 Mercedes-Benz to replace his old Cadillac, Ramfis shipped off another $5,500 Mercedes to Zsa Zsa and an $8,500 model to Kim. Later he picked up the tab for a $17,000 chinchilla coat that Zsa Zsa had ordered. Calling himself "one of the wealthiest young men in the world," Ramfis termed the gifts "surprises...
Last week the boom met its first real test at the first chinchilla auction. Farmers Chinchilla Cooperative of America, which had staged a pre-auction fashion show, put 10,600 pelts up for sale in Manhattan. The first lot sold for $175 a pelt, but prices quickly drifted down to $25, considered the break-even point. When they dropped to $11, the remaining lots were withdrawn. The 2,760 pelts sold were only enough for about 60 jackets...