Word: bazaar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Elizabeth Jordan, 79, onetime editor (Harper's Bazaar), turn-of-the-century sobsister whose New York World stories on the Lizzie Borden hatchet-murder trial were the sensation of the day; in Manhattan. Close friend of Henry James, Mark Twain, she "discovered" Sinclair Lewis, bought his first novel (for Harper & Bros.), edited him with a heavy blue pencil...
...Paris still had intractable citizens who liked to look at more recognizable pictures. After 5½ years in Manhattan, Painter Marcel Vertes had just returned to Paris to open a show of the pastel, boyish maidens who have long decorated the covers of Vogue and Harper's Bazaar and sold Schiaparelli perfume in the U.S. A dozen gendarmes were needed to keep order at Vertes' opening, and all 50 of his agelessly sweet and sexy pictures sold out in a few hours...
After building up to a monumental state of disorder, Cahalys retains most of the characteristics of an Oriental bazaar, the due rugs and aromatic spices having been replaced by Pepsi-Cola and Kasanoff's Pumpernickel. As in an archaic bookshop, one of the merchants explained, "one of our clients is always finding something valuable. As long as order is maintained, you're always welcome to come in and browse around." Maybe you'll pick yourself up something old and rare-like a bar of soap...
Most of the 17 short stories in this collection have already been printed in the New Yorker and Harper's Bazaar. They are the product of an able craftsman, content to plow a narrow field, and not very deeply...
...peddling process has become as ritualized as transactions in a Bagdad bazaar. The artist 1) mopes in a waiting room, 2) is waved in to see the cartoon editor, 3) unzips his briefcase, 4) hands over a batch of rough sketches. Small talk is permitted, but he never cries "This'll kill you!" The editor riffles through the roughs, seldom grins, hands most of the sketches back, holds out a few on approval. At lunchtime many of the artists get together at either of two Manhattan restaurants-Pen & Pencil or Danny's Hideaway-to talk over their troubles...