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...this kill-or-cure atmosphere, some 250 fur ranchers and buyers gathered last week in downtown Manhattan for an event of prime potential importance to the $500,000,000-a-year U.S. fur industry...
They argue that chinchilla has been off the market for so long that it is virtually a new fur, and has to resell itself. But many a furrier doubts that it will. Chin chilla fur is so perishable - and so valuable - that some owners have kept their coats in cold storage, brought them out only on state occasions. Ranchers say that the new "chins" are tougher, point out that most chinchilla coats in existence have already lasted 20 to 30 years. But, as one skeptical furrier cracked last week: "We have more people who want to sell chinchillas than want...
...early 19th Century the fur-hunting Russians came pelting down the Pacific coast from Alaska, established a colony some 50 miles north of San Francisco. War between Russia and the U.S. might have resulted, but just then the sea-otter trade began to peter out, the Court of St. Petersburg lost interest in its California and Oregon claims...
...from Prince George, B.C. flew provincial police, to begin a vigil at outpost fur sales. Soon an Indian tried to sell 16 marten pelts which had been cured not as Indians cure them, shapeless and wrinkled, but the white man's way, long and smooth. Police arrested 22-year-old Alex Prince, charged him with the double murder...
What Could He Lose? Leonard Warren reversed the usual U.S. operatic procedure and changed an exotic name to more familiar syllables. He was born Warrenoff in The Bronx, where his Russian-born father ran a fur shop. After graduating from Evander Childs High School he helped with his father's fur business, studying advertising at Columbia on the side. He also took some singing lessons. They might have remained a hobby but for the depression which crimped the fur business...