Word: falled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fashions to the entire press at the same time-a procedure that protects out-of-town newspapers against premature release of fashion stories by papers in New York, where the big fashion shows are held. Every summer the group conducts a "press week," with showings of the next fall and winter fashions; again, in the winter, the styles for the following spring and summer are trotted out. It is against the rules for anyone to preview the fashions before the press-week release dates...
This year the Times decided it had had enough: it ran a story about this fall's fashions long before the press-week release date. Pink with rage, the Couture Group sent "pledge cards" to editors, asking them to observe the release rules. When the Times refused to sign, it was barred from the group's style shows. Unperturbed, Elizabeth Howkins tapped private sources, last week ran a story about next spring's styles (heavy on geometric designs, skirts like "deflated melons"). "It's ridiculous," said Editor Howkins, "to observe such release rules." To that, newsmen...
...Clyne: "Last spring we went over 200 finished pilots and another hundred ideas. We picked 40, put them on the air. Of those 40, we had confidence in only a dozen or so-and right now, I'd almost guarantee that less than ten will be renewed next fall...
...strong bid last week to catch up in a hurry. Into production went Chrysler Corp.'s compact Valiant station wagon, well ahead of Ford, which will not have a station wagon on the market until next spring, and Corvair, lagging far behind, which will not have one until fall...
...charm of the old legend itself, which Scenarist Jacques Viot has adapted simply and gracefully. Orpheus is a Rio streetcar conductor; Eurydice is a village girl who comes to the big city to visit her cousin and to escape from a sinister stranger who wants to kill her. They fall in love and go down to the city together to celebrate the carnival in the streets. There her enemy, who is Death, seeks her out and carries her away. Orpheus, heartbroken, goes looking for his lost love at the Bureau of Missing Persons, then at a diabolic rite where spirit...