Word: cocktailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After-the-game cocktail music, presented last year, will again be part of the Network's football season offerings...
Designer Christian Dior, who claims to have brought about the fall of the hemline, told an inquiring Los Angeles reporter that the cocktail-gown neckline should be "low enough to be attractive, but not low enough to be indecent."* Just where is that boundary? "That," philosophized Designer Dior, "is a philosophical question...
There were no publisher's cocktail parties last week for Author Capa. He was in Moscow with John Steinbeck, on assignment from the New York Herald Tribune. But in the current '47, his friend John Hersey spoke up for him, giving some lowdown that was news even to Capa's publishers. Capa, said Hersey, is "The Man Who Invented Himself." He was thought up in Paris by a poor Hungarian free-lancer named Andrei Friedmann and his sweetheart, Gerda. The better to sell Friedmann's pictures to unwilling French editors, they palmed them...
...addition, there are cocktail hour music programs on Saturday during the football season. Last year the radio ran continuous 24 hour jazz orgies during reading period and rented a special wire to bring the Dartmouth football game from Hanover for the benefit of the stay at-homes in Cambridge...
...those slick get-ups for me, the purple dress with matching glasses; that chartreuse number guaranteed to make sober men think they've had enough; that low-out orange one whose method of support is still uncertain . . . One thing bothers me; I didn't tell mama that these cocktail conglomerations are in men's ROOMS. I'm not sure that I understand THAT. I've boned up on Emily Post; but she doesn't mention such places...