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...intimidated by his view of the world between a clutter of long adult legs, is the constant winner in his never-ending war with the exasperated adults who surround him. For example, he can easily undo both his mother and her tea guest by standing between them with a fur coat draped over his arms and blurting out: "I showed Mrs. Taylor your new fur coat, Mom, but she didn't turn green like you said she would...
...Sultan's reply: he ordered his gardeners to plant shrubs all over the sahibs' golf course, which was, after all, his own property. In time, the Sultan sent her back to England, and there Lydia was killed in an air raid in the act of buying a fur coat. The Sultan was desolate...
...Love of Four Colonels (by Peter Ustinov) does something to brighten a dun-colored season, but not much to fur ther the dramatic art. The first play of London's precocious, prolific Peter Ustinov to appear on Broadway, a play is precisely what Four Colonels cannot be called. In essence it is a series of parodies set inside a framework of fantasy; and like most jokes that last all evening, it would far better keep earlier hours. But Playwright Ustinov at his best is witty and at his next-best rather gay, and Rex Harrison and Lilli Palmer...
...Women who envy the interesting time that men have at work often exaggerate their own kitchen martyrdom ... to gain concessions and rewards. I know one woman who, on such a basis, got herself an extra television set, a fur coat, a small car and a separate bedroom-some husbands will do anything to insure their continuing to get a hot, home-cooked meal...
...full-length mink coat takes up to 80 carefully matched and graded pelts. Each skin is sliced diagonally into dozens of strips, less than a quarter of an inch wide. Then the strips are sewn back together to form a two-inch-wide piece of fur equal to the length of the coat. These long swatches of fur, in turn, are sewn together to make the coat...