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Maeve Brennan came from Dublin to America with her family in 1934, when she was 17. She has lived here ever since. She worked at first for Harper's Bazaar, but in the 1940s her work caught the eye of New Yorker Editor William Shawn, who encouraged her to do the Long-Winded Lady pieces and stories as well. Her seven-year marriage to Fellow New Yorker Writer St. Clair McKelway ended in divorce...
...which mainly backs medical charities) passed out free food worth about $2.3 million?some $300,000 more than had been planned?to poor people in the San Francisco area. Hearst also talked the directors of the Hearst Corp., which publishes eight newspapers and eleven magazines (including Cosmopolitan, Harper's Bazaar and Good Housekeeping), into putting an additional $4 million into an escrow account in the Wells Fargo Bank. If Patty is released unharmed by May 3, the date when the offer expires, the money is to be spent on more free food and other aid to the needy. The S.L.A...
...Sacred Heart of Jesus still dominates the center of the capital. But its doors are locked, and the star and crescent of Islam have replaced the cross atop the spires. Everywhere, curling, zigzagging Arabic letters have supplanted the Latin alphabet. In front of the Souk al-Turk (Turkish bazaar), there is a statue of Septimius Severus, the Roman Emperor (A.D. 146-211) who was born in Libya. A visitor would not know who it was if he could not read Arabic, since the plaque in Latin letters has been removed. Today the few Italians remaining in Tripoli jokingly refer...
...Only 14 months ago, James W. Brady took his reputation for brass and innovation from Women's Wear Daily to Harper's Bazaar. He soon won the titles of publisher and editorial director and set out to shake the frilly fashion monthly to its lingerie. Brady replaced conventional models with recognizable people posing against busy street backgrounds to show how fashions would look outside the salon. Trouble was that this approach merely irritated many women readers who wanted to get a straight, uncluttered look at the clothes. He brought a daily newspaper's intensity to Bazaar...
...partisan issue: the G.O.P. also had a chairperson in Miami Beach. Thus another label comes unglued. The man and his woman are Out; the neuter "person" is In-and only the chair is allowed to linger undisturbed. Chairperson is just the latest exchange in that great linguistic bazaar where new terms are traded for old. The elderly "Mrs." and the shy "Miss" now curtsy to the crisp, swinging "Ms." "Congressone" has been suggested in federal corridors to replace the Congressman-woman stigma...