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...prestigious Halsted & Co., for which he has been "selling funerals," as they say in the trade, for 30 years. "But I do know that this generation seems to want things done more simply. It's probably the most significant trend since the 1930s, when people stopped hanging crepe on their doors, and funeral services were moved from the family living room to the mortuary chapel...
...leavening, in the past two or three years. Mostly chain-operated, the pancake shops are attractive, glittering clean, well designed, usually are located in suburban areas, where they get maximum family traffic. They offer the once-humble griddle cake, glorified and garnished in up to 37 astonishing varieties (e.g., crepe suzette, blintze, Swedish roll-up, royal Hawaiian). Fast growing Pancake Kitchens, Inc. this week opened its tenth "Aunt Jemima's Kitchen" at Bethpage, Long Island, plans to have 36 shops operating in the Eastern U.S. by 1967. International House, which has 63 shops across the country, is opening...
Money-losing items have been cut without sentiment. At Samuel Courtauld & Co., a division dating back to the days when Courtaulds was mostly famous for silk mourning crepe, uneconomical lines of fabrics for clothing and industry were eliminated. Explains Kearton: "The important thing is to stop promptly when you see you are on the wrong track...
...black and white emphasized by black flats with white crepe hangings and a checkered tablecloth, was one of austere, Satanic simplicity. The table and chairs were the only furniture. You expected the celebration of a Black Mass with sacramental absinthe on this Greenwich Village esplanade, but the dreamlike events unrolled rather harmlessly: a sportively dressed Pierrot appeared with his lovely Columbine. They talked dreamily, wittily, Pierrot, in the best tradition of talkers, saw himself as an artist, as a socialist who "loves mankind but hates human beings," as a critic who can really accept nothing. But we soon find that...
Designers' colors for winter sound like a low-calorie diet-carrot, eggplant, prune, cherry and mint. Fabrics range from ordinary reversible wools, suede and leather to delicately worked jerseys, crepe, chiffon and much velvet. The favorite by far is fur-Maggy Rouff shows an all-beaver skirt, Patou an all-nutria dress, and Balmain (a sort of latter-day Gregor Mendel) crosses persian lamb with tweed for a hybrid stadium plaid...