Word: carmel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the Sept. 1 issue of Vogue (circ. 345,358) went on sale last week, Editor Carmel Snow of the rival Harper's Bazaar (circ. 321,325) gasped in dismay. Leading off the magazine was a 17-page view of the new Paris fashions. It was a big beat, with photographs and sketches of dresses by such big names as Dior, Fath and Paquin. What horrified Editor Snow was not the new geometric look, but the fact that it was in Vogue at all. Harper's Bazaar had not carried the pictures; it had understood that...
...collector's eye and taste on buying trips to Mexico and Italy. He directs the business from a deskless office, likes to roam through the store's three floors wearing loud-colored sport shirts. He also keeps tabs on Gump's branches in Honolulu and Carmel...
British Roman Catholics are also making an intensive drive for the lost and strayed. Under the leadership of tall, scholarly Father John Carmel Heenan, 43, superior of the Catholic Missionary Society, mission teams are paying flying visits to 1,700 Catholic parishes in England and Wales. In each of them missionaries stay from one to three weeks, visiting every Catholic in the area, holding church services twice daily. Father Heenan advises his missionaries never to complain to parishioners about lack of attendance. Says he: "A church that is half empty is half full...
Remarried. Martin Flavin, 63, who won the New York Theater Club Medal for his play The Criminal Code (1929), later switched to novels and won the Pulitzer Prize for Journey in the Dark (1943); and third wife Cornelia Clampett Flavin, 51, who divorced him in 1944; in Carmel, Calif...
Diminishing Returns. In Mt. Carmel, Ill., the burglar who stole 35? from the American Legion Clubhouse bowling alley, dropped a dollar...