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...last week White House Stenographer Lauretta Young put on the cloth coat she had been conspicuously wearing of late, and quit her job. Her ownership of an $8,540 royal pastel mink coat, which was conveniently financed by a Washington attorney who specialized in federal contacts, titillated the Senate investigation into RFC influence-peddling last month (TIME, March 12). To hear Presidential Secretary Joe Short tell it, Mrs. Young (after working for Harry Truman since his senatorial days) had simply decided "to devote more time to domestic duties...
Hope Hampton, who traded a silent-screen career for a life of diamonds and mink as the wife of the late multimillionaire Banker Jules Brulatour, came home to her four-story Manhattan house to find a few trinkets missing. Burglars had walked off with some $300,000 worth of uninsured jewels, $15,000 in cash and a $15,000 mink coat. Wearing a mink cape, a cluster of diamonds in her hair, and flashing a 23-carat, $100,000 diamond ring, she could not tell detectives for sure if anything else was stolen because "I have so much scattered around...
...admiration to your writer who pulled: "Tradition is that chorus girls get mink coats the same way minks do" [TIME, March 19]. One of the greatest opening lines ever put to paper...
...damage to his party by a White House secretary in a pastel mink coat and an ambassador to Mexico in soiled linen...
...upstairs in my room. I didn't even go out. I was allergic to cactus." thing?" "You just asked didn't Halley. want to know any Said Virginia: "No, sir, I didn't want to know anything about anybody." With that, she shrugged her mink stole higher on her shoulders, ran a gauntlet of photographers, paused to shout, "You god dam bastards, I hope an atom bomb falls on all of you." Near the door she slapped a woman reporter for good measure. Even for Ginny it was quite an exit. The senators, a bit flustered...