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Executive positions will be held by two of the delegates when the meeting convenes this afternoon. W. Baird Bryant '50, vice chairman of the Council, will preside over the entire conference in his post as president of the model Security Council. Eliot S. Berkley '46 will be Secretary-General...
...Besides Bryant and Berkley, Donald Connery '50, K. Bruce Friedman '50, and Francis Weiner 1G will represent the U.N. Council. Sted Noble '49 will go as observer...
Clothes for Callers. Her real start came when a pregnant customer asked Lane Bryant to make her something "comfortable and yet presentable." Mrs. Bryant made a tea gown in which the bodice was attached by an elastic band to an accordion-plaited skirt. This permitted comfort and style with expansion; with it Lane Bryant's business expanded...
...Bryant married a dynamic Lithuanian engineer, Albert Malsin. Soon she settled down to trying out her own creations while Malsin ran the business. He started retailing maternity wear by mail, added "stylish stouts," based "on the laws of optics, psychology and color." Making clothes for stout women, said Malsin, was not just making outsized versions of the "perfect 36." It was like camouflaging ships, the object being "to deceive the eye . . . as to the ship's size, its course and its speed...
...time Albert Malsin died in 1923, Lane Bryant's was grossing $5,000,000 a year. Under the presidency of Lane Bryant's oldest son, Raphael Bryant Malsin, 47 (who took over in 1938), it has continued to expand. Lane Bryant Malsin is still on the board of directors, still owns 23% of Lane Bryant's valuable stock. But whatever Ray wants to do is all right with her. Said she this week: "I really never was a business lady...