Word: crawford
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vote favored more conservative colors and styles with the exception of a red faille bolero and skirt Dior original in the cocktail dresses division. Modeling the winning combinations were Mary Frances Blakeslee '52; Susan Kunstadter, Sargent; Joan Wilson, Sargent; Peggy Crawford, Simmons; Jane Hauser, Boston University; and Joyce Dana, Tufts...
Less for Clothes. Prospects were not that bullish all around. In clothing, food and shoes, the price trend was still down. Following the lead of Crawford Clothes, Inc. (TIME, Oct. 25), two suitmakers, a shirtmaker, and a big men's wear retailer last week announced price cuts ranging from 6% to 20%. And the Department of Labor reported that food prices dropped 0.6% from mid-August to mid-September, with the result that the cost of living remained the same in mid-September as a month before, ending a steady advance of five months. (The index has still...
...most dramatic price cut of the year. For months clothiers had watched men's suits pile up on the shelves and racks in their stores. Last week Crawford Clothes, Inc.'s Joseph Levy, one of the biggest sellers of men's clothes, slashed prices 20% across the board...
...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...
Love Life (music by Kurt Weill; book & lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner; produced by Cheryl Crawford) can boast the Best of Everything-the producer and the librettist of Brigadoon, the composer of Lady in the Dark, the director of A Streetcar Named Desire, the choreographer of Finian's Rainbow, the leading lady of High Button Shoes, the leading man of Annie Get Your Gun. But whether so many top-notchers are like too many cooks, or whether some of them have slipped a notch or two, Love Life is not really a good show; it is only a show...