Word: edna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...EDNA'S FRUIT HAT AND OTHER STORIES (2 I I pp.) - John Pudney - Harper...
Mother made a fine 15-stone* corpse. Even in her coffin, she dominated the dingy, chocolate-colored house which Edna, her spinster daughter, would now inherit along with other odds & ends of property and nondescript furnishings. Edna had devoted her life to Mother. Edna was fiftyish. "What a relief for Edna," whispered the family. "She must feel that she's starting life again...
...Snigger from Mother. About an hour before the mutes arrived, Mother's will was read. But Mother, "with her fondness for underdone beef and breezy unpleasantness," was to have the last word. Edna was to inherit on one condition: she must be earning ?5 a week within a month of the funeral. In her whole life, Edna had never earned anything but a snigger from Mother. But as the family smiled, Edna felt a quiet pleasure in her new-found sense of freedom...
Last week, after prophesying the most drastic style changes in a decade, the fashion magazines swept on to the crucial task of their year: rushing the news, sketches and pictures from the Paris and New York openings into print for their big fall numbers. Queenly Edna Woolman Chase, 70-year-old editor-in-chief of Vogue, bustled home from a quick inspection of her revived British and French editions. Pert Carmel Snow, 56, editor of Harper's Bazaar, was doing front-line duty in Paris. Both were ecstatic about derrieres, guepieres (little waist corsets), and a French designer...
Brown-eyed Edna Chase, mother of Actress-Author (In Bed We Cry) Ilka, has edited Vogue ever since 1914, five years after the late Conde Nast bought it. In & out of her chartreuse-and-beige office, she is a hard-to-please autocrat ("my wastebasket is my strongest ally"). Her philosophy is frankly snobbish: "We are 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...