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...Montgomery Ward, which has in recent years ventured into higher quality lines, pulled in its horns a bit, but continued to expand its medium-higher-priced lines. Whereas the 1939-40 catalogue featured a top-price fur jacket at $139.50, 1940's stopped at a $69.50 fur coat. While last year's customer was offered a single $59.50 fur-trimmed coat, the 1940-41 buyer had three to choose from...
...with a wandering look in his eye and ears laid back, like a mute trying to make a speech. . . . The hyena dribbled, ate, vomited, and ate again; no sickness, still less any discomfort could diminish his voracity. The panther lay huddled in a corner of her cage, with staring fur and a look of mystery in her eyes. . . . Can the sufferings of animals reveal what is going on in their dim souls...
Every year since 1934, at sunrise on Easter morning, Nancy Brown has sponsored a sunrise service on Belle Isle. Her readers, who flocked to the services in tens of thousands, heard preachers and speakers, but never were allowed a glimpse of her. With the fur collar of her coat turned up around her face, she mingled unnoticed among her admirers, for they had never even seen her picture...
...small theatre 50 stories above the street, in Manhattan's Chanin Building, a "mobile"-one of the famed contraptions of Sculptor Alexander ("Sandy") Calder-stood on the stage, its burnished discs blazing in the spotlight. Before it, in slinky black gown and monkey-fur jacket, swayed a woman whose saucer eyes, blazing teeth, and hair like a jackpot of fresh-minted pennies made her look remarkably like Harpo Marx. A friendly, arty-social audience applauded. Marianne Oswald, diseuse (singing actress), friend of intellectuals on both sides of the Atlantic, was making her U. S. debut...
...some 400 people, about a quarter of his payroll, on the way. During the past fortnight Paramount carved off about 50 of its excess employes, while 20th Century-Fox was reported to have fired from 100 to 200 persons. Bullock's-Wilshire shop did not sell an expensive fur coat in ten days and Giro's night club was a morbid expanse of bare white table tops on Thursday, usually the busiest night...