Word: bazaar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...widened, which buildings demolished, which squares enlarged, and where new roads are to run. Some months ago, during a diplomatic trip to Baghdad, Turkey's Premier rose in the middle of the night to dispatch a cable to Istanbul: "Have decided to tear down house opposite Spice Bazaar at Eminonu Square. Proceed with expropriation...
Aiun is a capital of unpaved streets and adobe buildings, lacking proper port facilities, adequate airstrip or water supply for 15,000 Spanish soldiers. In its bazaar, tribesmen selling their beads and hammered silver listen to Arab-language broadcasts from Rabat, just as Moroccans before independence tuned in Cairo. In the surrounding countryside, the Spanish have pulled their garrisons out of many tiny outposts into four desert fortresses...
High fashion's highest priestess, Carmel Snow, retired last week after 25 years as editor of Hearst-owned Harper's Bazaar (circ. 393,787), but will continue to cover the Paris showings for the Bazaar. Her successor: Nancy White (wife of FORTUNE Publisher Ralph D. Paine Jr.), onetime (1947-57) fashion editor of Hearst's Good Housekeeping, since last January assistant editor of the Bazaar...
Jean Kerr is a tall (5 ft. 11½ in.),, witty free-lance writer (Harper's Bazaar, New York Times) and playwright (Touch and Go, King of Hearts) who writes mostly in her green Chevy-a sort of mobile workshop that she parks on side roads near her Larchmont home "to escape housework, interruptions from the kids and television." But last week Writer Kerr had to do her writing at home-before the TV-because she had been asked to take vacationing Critic John Crosby's caustic TV corner in the New York Herald Tribune (for which...
Dorothy Johnson, a 51-year-old assistant professor* who looks as if she may have just talked to the ladies at the opening of a church bazaar, writes with authentic familiarity about the men who opened the American West. When the dude reader is informed by the publisher that "there is something about a Colt .44 beside the typewriter that inspires me," or that Miss Johnson won a spur from that loose-lipped but hard-writing outfit called the Western Writers of America, Inc., he may well suspect that he is in for a good fat slice from...