Word: silvering
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Next day, while Mrs. Howe scored a matronly 88, young Mrs. Stevens, twice-married and a 51-year-old grandmother, chalked up 83 to win the tournament by seven strokes. Champion Stevens had won the Senior championship once before, but the name that appears most often on the big silver cup Mrs. Stevens took home is that of Mrs. Leila Du Bois, four times champion and five times runner-up since...
...fact is that small change has not increased much. On Aug. 31 (latest breakdown), $174,000,000 in 1? and 5? pieces was at large in the U. S., only $18,000,000 over last year. Dimes, quarters and halves (''subsidiary silver coin") totaled $389,000,000, up only $24,000,000 from 1939. Over $800,000,000 of the "missing" money is in the form of bills-mostly silver certificates and Federal Reserve notes...
...paintings and art objects, including a Titian, a Gainsborough, a Rubens, a Romney, which he plans to exhibit in Manhattan this winter. Last summer Dr. Di Ghilini beheld and coveted, in West Hollywood's Old Colony Antique Shop, a throne which appeared to him to be of hammered silver and gold, of the 16th Century or earlier. Summoning his powers of hocuspocus, Dr. Di Ghilini made small purchases, casually asked Joseph Osiel, tall, excitable part owner of the shop, about the throne. It would cost $2,000, said Mr. Osiel. For two weeks Magician Di Ghilini made more purchases...
...Sherwin. The remainder helps Thomas to run his estate on Quaker Hill in New York's Dutchess County, where he lives with his wife and 17-year-old son Lowell Jr. There on fat rolling acres Thomas maintains a fine big Colonial mansion, two swimming pools, a silver fox farm, a small radio studio, a baseball diamond, a four-piece orchestra, a stableful of horses, tennis courts and a ski run. Close by is a 2,000-acre real-estate development, in which he invested $280,000 two years ago and to which he devotes much of his spare...
...mutation of silver fox, platina fox furs come as low as $300, as high as $12,000. Since the quota on platina foxes has already been filled, due to unloading by Norwegian furriers before the war, the fur Ripley's four Norwegians brought with them is being held in a warehouse until December. To suggest the fur that wasn't there a fancy platina fox worth $11,000 was on display in the studio. On hand for the show were representatives of many a famed Manhattan store, along with bidders from stores in Philadelphia, Dallas, Cleveland, Chicago...