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Designers' colors for winter sound like a low-calorie diet-carrot, eggplant, prune, cherry and mint. Fabrics range from ordinary reversible wools, suede and leather to delicately worked jerseys, crepe, chiffon and much velvet. The favorite by far is fur-Maggy Rouff shows an all-beaver skirt, Patou an all-nutria dress, and Balmain (a sort of latter-day Gregor Mendel) crosses persian lamb with tweed for a hybrid stadium plaid...
...York Herald Tribune dismissed the exchange as "all puff and no pith," but ABC was-and is-happy. Says Network News Vice President James C. Hagerty, who signed Lisa to a one-year contract in May: "She works like a beaver. She'll be tops." Not all appraisals are so kind. "This dame has an irresistible urge to talk about herself," says a female rival. Complains Lisa: "I have to fight certain things because I look...
During a party at Arlington House, London residence of British Press Lord Beaverbrook, the conversation turned to a British actress who was publicly planning a holiday abroad with her ex-husband. The Beaver thought that the public might consider the trip in bad taste, but one of his guests demurred. "I don't think so," said Arthur Christiansen, who had just retired after 24 years as editor of Beaverbrook's biggest newspaper, the London Daily Express (circ. 4,269,704). "Indiscretions merely attract the public in a greater degree to the box office." Delighted, the Beaver turned...
...autobiography, Headlines All My Life, Arthur Christiansen, 56, embellishes his 1957 summary of the Daily Express with some 100,000 words. The result confirms the Beaver's judgment: with his casual remark to Beaverbrook. Retiring Editor Christiansen spelled out his own philosophy of journalism and the whole story of the Express...
...editor, Christiansen never bothered to question the Beaver's truculent jingoism-up the British Empire, down the League of Nations, the United Nations and most things American-that set Express policy: "I was a journalist, not a political animal," he says by way of explanation. "My approach to newspapers," Christiansen told a British television audience last year, "was based on the idea that when you looked at the front page you said: 'Good Heavens,' when you looked at the middle page you said: 'Holy Smoke,' and by the time you got to the back page...