Word: slickers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...auction houses across the U.S.: Robert W. Skinner Gallery in Bolton, Mass.; Adam A. Weschler & Son and C.G. Sloan & Co. in Washington, D.C.; Mortons in New Orleans; San Francisco's Butterfield & Butterfield; West Palm Beach's Trosby Auction Galleries. The so-called country auction where the city slicker might once snap up for a song a Revere salver or a federal highboy is as distant a memory as the nickel newspaper. Says Scudder Smith, editor of Antiques and Arts Weekly, "You look around some of these little country auctions and there are 25 well-known dealers there...
American film makers, slicker and warier, searched for directness in youngsters who also had good looks. Natalie Wood, in Miracle on 34th Street, was artlessly worldly. Dean Stockwell, almost romantically handsome, gave a performance of fearless vulnerability in Down to the Sea in Ships. Stockwell had much in common with Roddy McDowall, who earlier in John Ford's How Green Was My Valley had been one of the first young actors to combine sensitivity and uncertainty without losing the basic strength of childhood. They both anticipated the dreaminess and longing of Brandon De Wilde in Shane...
...safety. Roller fashions are also in demand. Chicago Designer Roberta Jakus' "Roller Rinx" line of satin, spaghetti-strap tank tops and shorts and jackets are selling at $43 per outfit. One manufacturer is preparing a line of skates that look like cowboy boots but carry a city slicker price tag: $200. A current fashion at roller rinks is old skate keys color-plated with disco colors and hung around the neck with gold chains or satin ribbons. A charming bit of nostalgia for those whose hearts (and pocketbooks) remain with the old metal skates of childhood...
...work, after dropping out of the University of Georgia, as a $90-a-month teller at the Calhoun First National Bank, run by his wife's grandfather. Seven years later Bert Lance and his friends bought control of the bank, and the hulking (6 ft. 4 in.) country slicker from Young Harris (pop. 544) helped turn the area into a prosperous carpet center with his high-risk loans to local small businesses. He soon parlayed his bank connections into a paper empire, tried unsuccessfully to succeed his friend Jimmy Carter as Governor of Georgia, took over the National Bank...
...heavyweight varsity eight pulled up to the dock after Sunday's 5:15 p.m. final, Harry Parker was standing silently, his yellow rain slicker wrapped carelessly about one arm. The concrete countenance, which carried with it power and dignity, revealed a slight grimmace that accentuated the signs of strain in Parker's weathered skin. The Schoenbrod shell glided to a halt as Parker grabbed one of the oars and pulled the boat closer to the dock...