Word: designer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...magazine is an ingenious conglomeration--from the the heavy stylization of Edgar de Bresson's "A Chapter From A Novel," a stylization which seems remarkably successful in its design to obscure the fact that he has nothing to say, to a condescending essay on the local literary scene by Lowell Edmunds, who apparently has no conspicuous desire to report accurately. And there is "A Preposition," by Kurt Blankmeyer, chiefly distinguished by its first sentence, 596 words long, and also by its incomprehensibility...
...Nassau's Pilot House Club, deepwater sailors were busy discussing the remarkable performance of one of the world's greatest sailors -Emil Mosbacher, last summer's skipper of America's Cup Candidate Vim. "Bus" Mosbacher had taken the run-of-the-drawing-board yawl, Callooh, designed by Phil Rhodes, and driven her to apparent victory in the annual 184-mile Miami-to-Nassau race. Then they discovered that Mosbacher had not won after all. Tardily, the race committee determined that the winner on corrected time was a 40-ft., fiber-glass-hulled yawl named Rhubarb...
Tripp has been in business for himself only since 1951. Son of a civil engineer, blond, shock-haired Bill Tripp is a lifelong Long Islander, has sailed everything from the family Star boat to ocean racers and frostbite dinghies, put in a twelve-year apprenticeship with Designers Rhodes and Stephens. As with all unknowns in the cliquish yacht business, Tripp at first found the going tough. In 1955 he finally got a chance to design an ocean racer, the yawl Katingo. The boat promptly won the American Yacht Club cruise two years in succession...
...players, Beauty and Ugly, sit facing in the same direction, using a board 17 by 11 inches. While Beauty attempts to fabricate an aesthetically satisfying design, Ugly endeavors to thwart his enemy by placing his quota of pieces in awkward spots, and to destroy Beauty's harmony...
...almost unknown couturier. His collection of neat suits and petite bell-skirted dresses had the buyers raving over "the exciting new house"-and buying. The house is Nina Ricci (pronounced reachy), in business for 27 years in a modest establishment far from the fashionable couture neighborhood. The designer is little (5 ft. 6 in., 154 lbs.), blond Jules-François Crahay, 41, who "merely did what I've been doing all my life." The Paris-trained son of a Belgian dressmaker, he settled at Madame Ricci's after three years of military service and five years...