Word: dapper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Hey wood Broun wrote his final column for the New York World-Telegram. It was a farewell to dapper little Roy Howard, who had been his boss for almost twelve years. Said Broun, polite as always, though he dictated from his bed in a Manhattan hotel, where he lay ill with grippe: "There were fights, frenzies, some praise and a lot of dough, and a good deal of fun in my relationship with Roy." Said Roy Howard, also polite, in a note appended to Broun's column: "Heywood was occasionally a bit of a headache. But like...
...Wall Street, an early-bird office boy named Martin Block used to tear a page off Owen D. Young's calendar every morning, turn on the office ozone machine, then listen to earfuls of advice (8:55 to 9) from the big boss himself. Nowadays Martin Block, the dapper $50,000-a-year impresario, prizes that advice highly. "I had better than a college education," he reflects. "I had five minutes a day, six days a week, two and a half years with Owen D. Young...
...Dapper little Lawyer Paul Reynaud, 61, "Mickey Mouse" to French voters, is the most widely traveled of French statesmen. He is the only one of them who has both run a chain of department stores in Mexico and been successively France's Minister of Colonies, Justice, Finance, who in 1938 yanked France's economy out of the ashcan into which the Popular Front had stuffed it. Last week he jaunted over to London to see Sir John Simon, the cold, grey lawyer who is Prime Minister Chamberlain's Chancellor of the Exchequer...
...told Vogue's Editor Edna Woolman Chase and Vanity Fair's Editor Frank Crowninshield that he had just found the ideal art director for his U. S. string of swank magazines. The latest candidate had clinched the job by the calm disdain with which he dismissed able, dapper Publisher Nast's theories on illustration and makeup. This Young Turk was in fact a young Turk, by name Mehemed Fehmy Agha. That was ten years ago. Last week PM, the lively little magazine for production managers and art directors, devoted its latest issue to Agha's American...
...real upswing came in 1934 when two things happened: 1) RCA began to remember and worry about its long dormant record business; 2) a brand new concern, Decca, entered the field with a sheaf of fresh ideas. Dapper, bespectacled Jack Kapp and his codirector, Edward R. Lewis, had long contended that what the country needed was a good 35? record (standard prices had previously ranged from 75? to $2). Signing up big names in the popular field (biggest: Crooner Bing Crosby-see p. 50), Decca put this contention to the test, and sales began to skyrocket. Today, the five-year...