Word: altmans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...private customers may be expected to buy a half-dozen gowns; 2) reporters and fashion writers; 3) manufacturers, many from the Americas, who will buy gowns as models and sell copies wholesale to every little dress shop; and, most important, 4) buy ers from big U. S. department stores, Altman, Macy, Saks Fifth Avenue, Bonwit Teller, scores of others. There is no competitive bidding between buyers and the price is the same to all couturiers who will make up any number of duplicates of a favorite model...
...their news of last week's openings, most big U. S. department stores were in constant cable communication with Paris. B. Altman & Co. went a step further, with a transatlantic telephone service. This scheme was originated last year by Altaian's top Fashion Copywriter Laura Hobson. Young, smart Advertising Director John C. Wood planned to launch a display campaign in newspapers and magazines this week to publicize the new designs. The trends of fashions as Altman and other stores studied them last week: There are three predominant silhouets ?medieval, crinoline, Empire. Empire features long toe-length skirts and extremely...
Nine years ago a certain Mr. Altman of Brooklyn visited an old colonial house purchased long before by his father and now ready for the wreckers. Prowling through the empty rooms he stopped and stared at a strange thing hanging over a mantel. Nearly a foot long and apparently mummified, it had two widespread, goatish feet, a curling tail, flaps of tissue extending from its body like wings, a grotesque caricature of a human face with plump cheeks, beady eyes, a pursed, smirking mouth...
...Altman took the monster to Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History and laid it on the desk of Ichthyologist Eugene Willis Gudger. Dr. Gudger had never seen such a thing before but he is versed in old and curious lore, knew instantly what it was. It was, he told Mr. Altman, a "Jenny Haniver." Dr. Gudger photographed the thing, began a systematic collation of data on Jenny Hanivers, ancient and modern, which last week he published in the June Scientific Monthly...
...Chemistry 5 Mallinckrodt MB 23 Economics 2a Harvard 5 Engin. Sciences 7b Pierce 302 Fine Arts 4a Robinson Hall Fine Arts 15b Fogg Small Rm. French 30 Sever 36 Geology 14b Rotch 201 Geology 18b Rotch 301 German 1c Sever 7 German 4 Harvard 2 Government 1 Mr. Altman, Sec. B6 New Lect. Hall Mr. De Nike, Sec. A5, A10 New Lect. Hall Dr. Fainsod, Sec. B5, B7 New Lect. Hall Dr. Hindmarsh, Sec. B9 New Lect. Hall Mr. Leiffer, Sec. A4, B1 New Lect. Hall Dr. Maddox, Sec. B10 Memorial Hall Mr. Marshall, Sec. A3, A8 Memorial Hall...