Word: clothier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hollywood's version of The Lost Weekend, it was the dubbed-in songs of Theodora Lynch Getty that drove the dipsomaniac hero to drink. Last week, tall, easygoing Singer Theodora Getty, 30, wife of Oilman J. Paul Getty and granddaughter of Chicago's late, famed Clothier Henry C. Lytton, was trying to drive all Hollywood to drink something else-pure Hereford water from Deaf Smith County, Texas...
Last week everybody on the New Jersey campus, from President Robert C. Clothier to the newest freshman (and including secretaries and janitors), was tackling the first "Book of the Year": Anthropologist Ruth Benedict's Patterns of Culture. The campus Philosophean Society had picked it on Peterson's say-so: he called it "a noble, beautiful, important book." If they get through the first one, he has some more up his sleeve: Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War, Hamlet, Alice in Wonderland...
...board of managers" (directors) used to meet in cutaway coats and striped trousers. They used no first names, but ceremoniously addressed each other as "Mr. Clothier," "Mr. Stotesbury" and "Mr. Morris." This formality extended even to the clerks. They were not permitted to smoke during banking hours, nor did they work in shirtsleeves. They seldom wanted to. The correct young men behind the counters were usually the same cool young bloods who danced at the Assemblies. "Joining Girard," as one employee said, "was like joining a good club...
Crawford Clothes was not the only clothier to take drastic action. In Chicago, Robert Hall Clothes bought up a manufacturer's entire stock of $50 flannel suits, and bragged in full-page ads that it was "shooting the works for $19.95." Retailers remembered their old maxim: sales of men's clothes are the first to fall; then women's, and then children's. They also remembered that the post-World War I slump began with a drastic retail price cut (John Wanamaker...
Married. Ann Ellen Farley, 22, younger daughter of ex-Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley; and Edward John Hickey, 25, apprentice clothier in his father's Detroit store; in Manhattan...