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...frequent inquiry is made by people interested in science as to how they can donate their pets to the cause of research. A regular occurrence is the question of what is the correct pronunciation or spelling of some word, such as beret. Once the office was asked whether a tomato is a fruit or a vegetable. It replied in the negative...
...velvet hat "with feather fantasy caught under the nice brim ... for the 40's or 50's or 60's" was unmistakably Mrs. Edna Woolman Chase, gracious, able editrix-in-chief of the three Vogues published in Manhattan, London, Paris. The drowsy blonde in the broadcloth beret (for ladies "this side of thirty") at the opposite side of the group was surely Nancy Hale Hardin, author of The Young Die Good, staff member of Vogue for four years. At Mrs. Chase's left, representing "the stretch between youth and middle age," was Mrs. Emma Vogt Ives...
Vines, when he ambled out, seemed to have the same idea. Wearing his white flannel cap, he was as nonchalant as usual against a Borotra who still had his blue beret but seemed to have lost some of the gay bounce that used to go with it. Borotra broke Vines's serve in the first game, rushed the net steadily on his own, hit his volleys crisp and hard. He took the first set 6-4. Borotra waited till Vines had him 4-2 in the third set before he stopped running for hard shots, let Vines have...
revealed as the inventor of the visored beret with which New York's Mayor James John Walker startled the Riviera last month (TIME, Sept...
TIME was misled by newshawks who beheld Mrs. Coolidge in her beret (see cut). Mrs. Coolidge's black hair, streaked with grey, is still long...