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Better than Hollywood. Yellowknife is a storybook mining town on the north shore of Great Slave Lake, 700 miles north of Edmonton, in the cold, desolate subArctic where temperatures fall sometimes to 60° below zero. Traces of gold were first discovered there in 1898. But fur-trapping was the area's No. 1 business until, one fall day in 1934, Prospectors C. J. Baker and H. M. Muir found high-grade ore on the shore of Yellowknife Bay. Then the gold rush...
When Dublin's Irish Times turns up with an item saying "Fur-collared, Paisley-scarved, Churchill-sock-wearing Walter Graebner" is in town, F.Y.I. passes on the information and points out that TIME International's European Area Director was wearing a pair of Winston Churchill's socks because he fell into a pond on the ex-Prime Minister's estate at Chartwell...
Dorothy Lamour, like Hedy Lamarr a week earlier (TIME, April 29), got debaubelized. While she was visiting Baltimore, an auto burglar got away with some $26,000 worth of her jewelry, a $1,500 fur coat, 36 pairs of stockings. Unmolested: 15 other pieces of luggage...
Professor Merk has written "Fur Trade and the Empire" and collaborated with F. J. Turner on "A List of References on the History of the West...
...women who could spend more than $200 on their promenade outfits-and there were thousands of them-a shopping spree wasn't complete without a new fur piece. In Denver, Daniels & Fisher couldn't keep up with the demand for $875-to-$1,740 sable scarves...