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Piratical Past. The founders of these families were almost invariably shrewd 19th Century merchants who bought cheap and sold dear: "... a Cabot, a Derby, a Sears, an Endicott, a Peabody, a Crowninshield and many others. All represent First Family names today and yet all were men who, if not actually pirates, were at least vikings in their methods." If some were above the slave trade, "they were not averse to an occasional sally into the opium trade." Merchant T. Jefferson Coolidge confided to his "Day Book" that "money was the only 'real avenue' to social success in Boston...
...reflecting the way of life of people with wealth and taste and social position." To help catch the reflections, Vogue has introduced to fashion coveys of high-priced painters (Christian Berard, Edouard Benito) and photographers (Cecil Beaton, Edward Steichen, Anton Bruehl). Its fine arts man is puttery Frank Crowninshield, 75, famed editor of famed Vanity Fair until Vogue gobbled it. Mrs. Chase and courtly Iva Sergei Voidato ("Pat") Patcevitch, successor to Nast, have admitted articles to their pages, but no fiction. "It shows a lack of sustained thinking," Pat thinks, "to run fiction in a fashion magazine . . . it is distracting...
...Edward Crowninshield Browne, Logan Bullitt...
...figures, dreamlike landscapes, surrealistic enigmas, glimpses of children's games. Some of the canvases looked as if they had been painted by the children in them; some were reminiscent of the French primitive, Le Douanier Henri Emilien Rousseau, or of French Modernist Marie Laurencin. Wrote Art Connoisseur Frank Crowninshield in one of the catalogue's two forewords (the other was written by Correspondent John Gunther) : "A curious and evocative order of magic; a gift of divination . . . the feeling of rhythm, or flow...
Editor Chase's staff includes some men-a couple of art directors, several photographers and famed esthetic Virtuoso Frank Crowninshield, who was editor of C. N.'s now defunct Vanity Fair and who is now a C. N. "editorial adviser." But Vogue is chiefly run by women, most of whom keep their hats on daylong as they work, thus give the appearance of being ready to take flight at any moment for some chichi affair...