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Fitting the varied shapes of Vogue readers, says Editor Chase, was simple. "There was one [size], and it was a 36." During the war and the roaring '203, Editor Chase gave Vogue readers the first news of the slowly rising hem line, of the first Chanel jersey cloth from Paris trimmed with rabbit fur. Vogue organized the first big New York fashion show, with models parading the clothes a la Paris, and was pleased to report that it was an instant...
...play reviews will seem as lifeless as a museum place, and about at topical. After the plays have left Broadway and the reviews safely consigned to the morgue, the drama critic would be better off writing an organized criticism of the American theatre, instead of arranging critical tombstones between cloth-bound covers. Eric Bentley, however, has seen fit to publish approximately fifty reviews, apparently in the hope that they will have both literary value and significance for American drama...
Will Kuluva, as the Russian spymaster, radiates the impersonal menace of a prescription for arsenic, while as Gouzenko, Townes suggests very gracefully a sort of soulful bureaucrat. Unluckily, there is an epilogue in which Gouzenko himself appears, wearing a black cloth mask that makes him look like an executioner. In deed, if the picture survives, it is not because he fails to lower...
Every 30 yards along the five-mile trip from the airport to the presidential palace was an arch of bright cloth decorated with pictures of President Eisenhower. On a street corner a scrawled sign read: "We thank the United States for its help." Girls pelted Holland with flowers as he drove slowly through the crowd in an open car. On the presidential balcony, to echoing applause, President Victor Paz Estenssoro told Holland that "these are people who, when offered a helping hand, know how to be grateful and affectionate...
Watches, Bicycles & Cloth. But there were other obstacles equally imposing. Many a British businessman, for example, has never been completely comfortable with the idea of giving up the "protection" of a controlled currency. Lancashire mill owners shrink at the thought of cheap Japanese cloth on British counters: British automakers shudder at the prospect of all those gleaming U.S. monsters invading their safe home market. Said one business man: "Things are going along fine right now, and as long as there is all this uncertainty, why rush into changed situations...