Word: customs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...show business other than to sign up for the first program of NBC Radio's revival of Conversation on March 21, which will be moderated by his good friend Critic Clifton Fadiman. What does Van Doren plan to charge for an appearance? "There's a medieval custom," he grins, "that an author never mentions money...
...costly gadgets to keep the most finicky millionaire happy. Opening, closing and locking the trunk is done automatically by electronic controls. Seats, steering, windows and brakes are power-operated; air conditioning is standard equipment. And as a final bow to happy motoring, the door of the glove compartment is custom-fitted with a cigarette case, tissue box, vanity case, lipstick and four gold-finished drinking cups...
...relationships as stabilizing or "cute." But Catholic authorities view them as a danger to morals so serious that last month the principal of St. Anthony's parochial high school in Bristol, Conn, expelled four students for going steady, and the current issues of two Catholic magazines attack the custom...
...industry to new life. Even as U.S. women flip through the fashion magazines, other manufacturers will be studying the photographs, devising ways of changing materials, reducing fullnesses, simplifying cuts so that they can present a copy of a design they never paid for. In three months the $300 custom-made copies will have been copied in their turn to sell for $49.50. and by the time the copy is copied and further simplified to reach Union Square in an $8.95 version, every stenographer will be muttering about that old thing she is wearing, and every loom from Massachusetts to Alabama...
...company, gone into hosiery, gloves and men's ties. He has designed cashmeres for Scotland's Hawick looms, bathing suits for Cole of California. In all, Dior enterprises in 24 countries gross $15 million a year. But the mainspring remains the painstaking, scrupulous design and construction of custom-made dresses in the headquarters on the Avenue Montaigne. Of the 12,000 dresses turned out each year, Dior sells more than $1,000,000 worth abroad, comprising more than half of all Paris couture's exports...