Word: bazaar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Holly is the heroine of the long title story in this four-story collection and the hottest kitten ever to hit the typewriter keys of Truman (The Muses Are Heard) Capote. Her unhousebroken style of life has already barred her from the intellectual drawing room of Harper's Bazaar, whose editors bought the story but did not print it. Holly is really more to be pitied than censored, more waifish than raffish, a bad little good girl, alone and a little afraid in a lot of beds she never made...
...seven. Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian got a Turkish five-shilling piece as a present and promptly rushed to the bazaar with it to buy an old coin. The boy's father unprophetically chided Calouste on his earliest recorded financial deal: "If that's the way you're going to use your money, you'll end up in the gutter...
...oldtime salesman gave way to mere order-takers, who sold only on the basis of price. And since the "list price" often differs widely from store to store, customers have lost faith in quoted prices, trust only in their own ability to haggle like shoppers in an Oriental bazaar. Says Aubra Johnston of Chicago's Better Business Bureau: "The so-called manufacturer's list price is for the most part baloney. The manufacturer inflates because the retailer demands it. The retailer says he must have it because the customer wants to believe he has been given...
Even the world's sharp-eyed buyers, no wasters of emotion, though they loved Dior, rose as one to give Saint-Laurent a standing ovation. "One of the great Dior collections," exulted Bergdorf Goodman's Andrew Goodman. Said astute Marie-Louise Bousquet, Harper's Bazaar's oldest Paris hand: "If the colossus of Dior had crumbled, it would have shaken French fashion to its foundations...
...preparation for the 1957 elections, Menderes banned all political meetings except at campaign time-a law that was interpreted so strictly that Republican Party Leader Kasim Gulek was arrested for shaking hands with well-wishers in a village bazaar. (As publisher of the newspaper Ulus, Gulek estimates that he now has 150 editorial and political charges currently pending against him.) And less than two months before election day, the Democratic majority in the Grand National Assembly passed a bill prohibiting any coalition among the three chief opposition parties...