Word: elegante
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Footwear & Philosophers. At home Russia's new masters have made specific and grandiose promises of more consumer goods, including TV sets and "elegant footwear." The Stalin auto works, which once produced nothing but the huge limousines that Stalin favored, has been converted to the manufacture of plebian bicycles. The...
"Here is a true report which should not be hidden. Never has France's stock fallen so low." With these words elegant, scholarly Pierre Brisson, 58, managing director of Paris' oldest daily, Le Figaro, shook up his staid readers and set off a fusillade of protest in the...
The upstart young magazine was Vogue, whose circulation was hovering around 5,000. Since then Vogue has boosted its circulation (now 415,400), added the successful British (circ. 140,000) and French (circ. 25,000) editions and has become the world's No. 1 fashion magazine. The credit goes...
The Perfect 36. Edna Chase herself was hardly elegant or beautiful. She got her job at 18, addressing envelopes for $10 a week-"a factotum, a kind of little widget, young, eager and ignorant. I think I was not an unattractive young woman . . . but the only permissible bust measurement, the...
Patterns & Paris. Vogue's audience was as small as its view of the world until Conde Nast, who helped give Collier's its start, came east from St. Louis to buy the magazine and its 14,000 circulation in 1909. Elegant, wealthy Publisher Nast poured money into his...