Yesterday's Times had a story about Mrs. Astor's will, complete with excerpts and selected bequests. My favorite part was that her daughter-in-law would get a diamond necklace and "my good mink coat and my chinchilla short coat".
It begs two questions: 1. who gets the lousy mink coat(s), and 2. aren't there any beaver coats? After all, the Astor money started with John Jacob Astor and the beaver-pelt trade.
25 June 2007
Mrs. Astor's Mink
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And Anne Hathaway got Shakespeare's second-best bed.
Laughing.
I inherited one of my great-grandmother's minks. I always kind of wondered how she decided about that.
I almost said "Heh, heh. She said beaver," but I'm restraining myself.
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