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Bustling about in her monkey-fur jacket and top-heavy hats, her pince-nez perched precariously on her thin nose, Impresario "Cissy" Schultz has long been as much a part of Seattle's musical scene as the musicians. For the past 25 years, she has run nearly everything musical in town except the symphony. Last summer when even that finally fell her way, one board member raged: "She always has wanted to get her clutches on the orchestra." Cissy rasped, in a voice sometimes compared to the sound of tearing canvas: "These big-business tycoons are just little boys...
German equivalent of "Cheerio!" Mary bequeathed a fur-piece to one of her former lovers, the Duke of Braganza, and suggested that he hang it over his bed. Then (as Lonyay reconstructs the police and medical evidence) Rudolph blew the top of her head off with his revolver and, after some ten hours, summoned the courage to shoot himself...
With the speed and grace of an old dray horse, High Towers creaks along with the meandering story of the mighty Le Moyne family which settled in Montreal in the 17th Century, profited from the fur trade, drove the English out of Hudson's Bay, intrigued at the French court and created New Orleans. It is also a tears-and-sugar romance about Félicité and Philippe, humble hangers-on of the Le Moyne household whose love is frustrated by French colonial policy...
Neighbors on their way home from church saw the tall, 56-year-old ex-Under Secretary of State, bareheaded and wearing a heavy fur coat, prostrate beside a lonesome road. His face had been scratched by briers, but there was no sign that he had been attacked. His clothes were frozen to his body; apparently he had fallen into a stream, stumbled out and collapsed a little distance beyond. He had lain there some eight hours before he was found...
Saskatchewan farmers were cautious about taking delivery of cars, trucks and tractors they had ordered when the world wheat famine seemed to assure endless prosperity. Many took delivery simply to resell-and then found that there was little or no profit to be had. At Edmonton fur auctions, ranch mink and ermine prices were down 35%. British Columbia lumbermen were cutting the price of lower grades, and they saw more cuts in prospect...