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...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...
...prizes include: a house, a home freezer, an automobile and trailer, a Persian lamb coat, a diamond ring, a diamond watch, a trip to Manhattan, the Vermont mountains and Bermuda, a ten-piece wardrobe, an electric refrigerator, a pantryful of canned goods, a set of fine china and another of flat silverware, a coffee brewer, a carpet, a vacuum cleaner, an electric washing machine, a ten-piece mahogany bedroom set, a gas stove, an electric stove, a fitted calf handbag, an automatic ironer, four end tables, a kolinsky scarf, a pressure cooker, six pieces of leather luggage, a year...
...tuxedoed old judge bent down to peer at the odd little creature, a child shrilled: "What is it, momma, a lamb?" Unconscious of the childish blasphemy and of the Madison Square Garden crowd, Dr. Samuel Milbank studied the Bedlington terrier intently-measuring his narrow skull, feeling his linty coat and reached (arched) back, testing his alertness and movement...
Many a grandstand dog-lover wondered how judges could pick the little lamb over "real dogs." How on earth can a judge decide between a Pomeranian and a pinscher, anyway? One Westminster veteran offered an expert's explanation: "The crowd sees only six dogs in the ring, but the judge sees twelve-the six real dogs, and six ideal dogs that exist only in his mind's eye. He isn't comparing the Bedlington with the springer; he measures the real and the ideal Bedlington." Ch. Rock Ridge Night Rocket might not look much...
...Assets Administration and Existentialism. Strunsky's skillful use of the telling fact, the apt comparison, the impeccable word made "Topics" a model of the vanishing essay form. Without blushing, his admirers, from Franklin P. Adams to Lin Yutang, compared Strunsky to Addison & Steele and Charles Lamb...