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Police Protection. In Milwaukee, when Mrs. Helen Bohn complained that her furrier would not return her Silverblu mink to her, police arrested her for stealing the mink in the first place...
...trap him. Groggy and submissive, he was clamped into a cage, given a heart stimulant to counteract the drugs, 15 hours later was dead. By then, however, he was a public hero: the city park board refused to sell his carcass for $10,000 to a Washington, D.C. furrier; instead, he will be regally mounted in the zoo. Quick as a fox, and resourceful as a beaver, a local department store put leopard T-shirts on sale, sold more than 300 to the city's leopard-minded small fry in one afternoon...
...maintained that Jews and Negroes were "systematically excluded." Jurymen had to have $250 in real property. The Reds' lawyers argued that their clients all fell "within the classes discriminated against": Henry Winston and City Councilman Benjamin Davis were Negroes. The others had been "workers": Irving Potash was a furrier; Robert Thompson, a machinist; Gus Hall, a lumberjack; John Williamson, a patternmaker; Gilbert Green, a metalworker; Carl Winter, a draftsman; Jack Stachel, a capmaker; John Gates, now an editor of the Daily Worker (see PRESS), was a former construction laborer...
...Shelf. Appliance sellers, among the hardest hit by the Government's credit curbs, complained that refrigerators were backing up on them; radio stores were only saved by the boom in television sets. A West Coast furrier, on a scouting trip to New York, discovered that his fellow furriers were keeping their stockrooms bare, rushed home and cut his prices 15-20%. Shoe manufacturers, some of whom had already cut production, were also talking of post-Christmas price cuts as high as $1 a pair. Many another manufacturer who last year had to stall off customers was now ready...
...Male Animal. In Albany, the New York State Assembly unanimously approved a bill allowing men to get their hair and nails done at beauty parlors. In Beverly Hills, Calif., Furrier Al Teitlebaum announced a new line of men's smoking jackets in seal, broadtail and Persian lamb...