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In the age of the ready-made and the copyist, private luxuries are now public domain. Because of the curious liaison Dior has wrought between the shrewd operators of Seventh Avenue and the damask-hung salons off the Champs Elyseées, U.S. women may deplore or applaud the plump...
Born. To Thomas Dudley ("Tommy") Harmon, 29, onetime A.A.F. pilot and All-America halfback (Michigan, 1939-40); and Elyse Knox Harmon, 30; their second child, second daughter; in Burbank, Calif. Name: Kelly Jean. Weight: 7 Ib. 11½ oz.
One day a woman stalked into Guerlain's shop on the Avenue des Champs-Elyseés. She had a complaint to make to the proprietor in person: "Monsieur, your perfume doesn't smell as good as it used to." One of the dignified old gentlemen who now...
When war cut off materials needed for certain scents, the Guerlains, Pierre and Jacques, jealous of the house's 119-year-old reputation, stopped making them, rather than put out an inferior product. When bombers wiped out the Guerlain laboratory in the suburbs, they started mixing perfumes in the...
In Paris last week, with the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association's cable still not answered, Champion Pauline Betz was outlawed from amateur tennis. "I'm not going to sit in a corner and cry about this," she said. But an hour later, at a sidewalk café on...