Word: account
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Argentina. Since war's end eleven major houses have closed (among them: Molyneux, Lelong, Paquin, Worth, Schiaparelli). The big houses make their money on sales to the U.S. and abroad, or on sidelines-perfume, hosiery, etc. But most depend on private individual customers, who even at Dior account for more than 60% of the total dress sales. Nowadays, few couturiers do much better than break even on their sales to individuals. On a $400 dress, Dior reckons on a profit of only $30 (manufacturers who plan to reproduce it must pay much more for the same dress, sometimes...
However, the varsity will have the advantage of playing on its home courts, on which it has not lost for over two years, and according to coach Jack Barnaby, the team "is up for the big one and should give a good account of itself...
...sale: $1,500,000. Part of this take came from theater parties, a growing force on Broadway, which trade tickets for contributions to charity. (Happy Hunting drew 74 sellout parties plus 50 others that partially filled the theater.) Another force that sweeps up tickets in wholesale lots: the expense-account economy, in which advertising agencies and public-relations men pass out good seats to good clients and visiting friends...
...illusion," was written by James Mathis, 32, a Post reporter who has won two state journalism awards for exposes of Texas housing and insurance swindles (TIME, Jan. 16, 1956). Mathis traveled 3,500 miles to get the story, downed enough illegal highballs to give readers a detailed, hard-hitting account of police corruption, judicial laxity, millionaire mobsters and juvenile crime...
...dead and escapes to Manchuria and freedom with Natalka. The mythic and dreamlike quality of the book suggests that Author Bahriany may be more interested in symbolism than adventure. But his fine telling of man's struggle against nature seems more compelling than his deeply felt account of a freedom fighter's war with totalitarianism...