Word: appareled
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Although modern beach apparel has taken some wind out of Mr. White's mainsail, his cuties are still beyond cavil. For the rest, the 1939 Scandals, like its predecessors, is a swiftly paced professional amateur hour occasionally bright, often dirty, sometimes painfully in need of a gong. There is one good song, Are You Having Any Fun?, energetically shouted by 52nd Street's Scotcha Ella Logan; one big, loud ensemble, hymning Tin Pan Alley; Tapper Ann Miller, who has some things Tapper Eleanor Powell has not; and a shimmy-shake called the Mexiconga, which will not be a successor...
David A. Smart is a onetime stenographer who in 1937 exulted: "Why didn't somebody tell me about this publishing game before? It's a cinch." Dave Smart had twice hit the jackpot: with Apparel Arts, a men's fashion magazine which began paying off soon after he started it in 1931, and Esquire, which, started in 1933, became a hit overnight. Esquire's Editor Arnold Gingrich packed it full of cheaply bought stories by big-name authors and flashy risque color cartoons, made it the greatest smoking-room magazine of all time. Circulation zoomed until...
...Freshman Committee of Phillips Brooks House are planning an old clothes and book drive for this week. Although in the last clothes drive, not as much apparel was collected as was expected, in the last book collection over a ton of magazines was amassed from willing donors...
...thinks he would be president of A. F. of L. today instead of its third and smallest vice president if John Lewis had played ball in 1924 (when Founder Sam Gompers died). Tom Rickert thinks he would be high man in the men's apparel industry if Sidney Hillman had not seceded in 1914 from Mr. Rickert's United Garment Workers and eclipsed it with the Amalgamated Clothing Workers...
...charged with the training of his students to pass college boards, not to enter college with a foundation of wide, well-integrated knowledge. Grooved by his responsibility to the boys' parents, he is apt to operate his school like a clothing store, fitting out each student with the requisite apparel and giving him only the choice between a hat and earmuffs...