Word: checkbooks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brittle click of a camera. The ecstatic monologuist was Vogue's talented photographer Irving Penn and the woman in white was his model. Well might Penn be ecstatic. In that strange, floodlit world whose heaven is Paris and whose economic life force is the American woman's checkbook, his model was a reigning queen. She was Lisa Fonssagrives, the highest-paid, highest-praised high-fashion model in the business, considered by many of her colleagues the greatest fashion model of all time. Says Photographer Horst Paul Horst, who helped her get started: "She has one of the most...
Perle is go-getting and able in her own way. She is a money-raiser extraordinary. At Harry Truman's request, she hustled her checkbook out to Kansas City in 1946, saved the day for his campaign to purge his home-town Congressman, Roger Slaughter. As co-chairman of last year's Jefferson-Jackson Day dinners, she raised $250,000, kept at it doughtily during the campaign. Declared Louis Johnson, chairman of the Democratic Finance Committee: "When our crowd got discouraged, Perle Mesta would raise hell. She called us men of little faith. She was a tonic...
...Russia to stay out. If western and central Europe recovered more rapidly, eastern Europeans would not thank Russia for blocking their recovery. It would be years before Russia, recovering very slowly (see FOREIGN NEWS), could help her satellites. Meanwhile, Uncle Sam had found a way to use his checkbook where it would do the most good...
...taking a bath, but Joe didn't seem to mind. Said he: "Money ain't everything, unless a poor guy ain't got it." Once when a crony told Joe that he wanted to put on an all-Negro show, Joe reached mechanically for his checkbook, asked his friend, "Will...
...half used checkbook also showed the stubs of checks made out for a "World's Series Box," and large sums paid out to the Club 100 and The Ritz, St. Regis, and Sherry-Netherland Hotels in New York City...