Word: bazaar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Yaleman Hobson moved into a job well calculated to suit a carriage-trade taste. He became managing editor of Harper's Bazaar (circ. 340,605), Sanhedrin of the high-fashion world. Hobson replaces Frances MacFadden, who retired after 18 years in the post. As the new M.E., Hobson will be chiefly concerned with Bazaar's non-fashion articles. But he will also read fashion copy and make criticisms from a man's point of view. Explained Editor Carmel Snow: "I think a man is terribly good for woman editors-I don't just mean...
Hobson put it somewhat differently. Said he: "My connection with the fashion operation of Harper's Bazaar is at best gossamer. However, at what Cole Porter has described as the charming age of puberty, I ceased drawing racing automobiles and began to draw women, with equal detail, and with what I like to think was even more combustible effect...
...Partisan Review) of a quack doctor's monologue in Chicago's "Bughouse Square"; Paul Bowles's eerie portrait (Mademoiselle) of a missionary's effort to hold the attention of primitive Indians by playing them jazz records; Peggy Bennett's sketch (Harper's Bazaar) of the thoughtless, almost affectionate cruelty young boys can show to each other; and Edward Newhouse's story (The New Yorker) of a father who delights in ceremonial tributes to his dead soldier...
...avant-garde literary world. Half of her stories are from the highbrow little magazines, but these are no more experimental or daring - and no better in quality - than the stories she picks from the slicks and fashion magazines. One reason: increasingly these days, magazines such as Harper's Bazaar and Mademoiselle have been offering more than the little magazines can pay for the work of the more understandable in the avantgarde...
Turtle races, water pistols, and sales of everything from white elephants to second hand clothes will be features of 'Cliffe's May Day Bazaar, taking place from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. today in the Annex Quadrangle...