Word: bazaar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over the U.S. Magazine publishers were beginning to ration subscriptions in a big way. Examples: Hearst magazines (Good Housekeeping, Cosmopolitan, Harper's Bazaar, etc.) now accept no new subscriptions, will take only renewals. McGraw-Hill Publishing Co., publishers of 26 trade journals (American Machinist, Aviation, Business Week, Electronics, etc.), will accept only enough new subscriptions to replace subscribers who fail to renew. Curtis Publishing Co. (Saturday Evening Post, Ladies' Home Journal) still accepts one-year subscriptions by mail, but solicitors take them only for two years or more...
These frank sentiments of the late, annoyingly literary George Moore got some rich encouragement last week. The best-known photographer of Harper's Bazaar had turned his glamorizing lenses on Gizeh and Thebes (see cuts). Baron George Hoyningen-Huene (pronounced Hoyningen-Hew-ney), 43, collaborated with Egyptologist George Steindorff, formerly of Leipzig University, in the publication of a super-glossy picture book with a short but solid text, Egypt (J. J. Augustin; $7.50). Fashion photographer Hoyningen-Huene went at his job with self-evident Schiaparelish; he romanticized immemorial stone as effectively as he ever did laces and velvets...
...Poland as a railway-tie inspector for the Belgian Government. In Paris he finally took up his profession, working for Vogue. He speedily established himself as a master of deluxe and diaphanous effects. He moved to the U.S. in 1935, when he began photographing for Harper's Bazaar...
...drawing in 1936 to an Italian magazine. Bertoldo, got $1.50 and much abuse from readers. Says he: "It was new, and they didn't like new things." But Steinberg continued working for Bertoldo for two years, then switched to Settebello and was also published in Harper's Bazaar, Brazil's Sombra, Argentine's Cascabel...
...damchee, na, na, damchee! " wailed the tongawalla to a British officer, who was trying to rent his two-wheeled tonga at an air base in India. Then a U.S. sergeant stepped from the bazaar with the souvenirs he had bought, said: "Sorry, sir, but this is mine for the afternoon...