Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Walter Hampden, romantic Shakespeare-&-Cyrano stage favorite of the '20s & '30s, decided it was time to retire, at 67. From California, stately, large-gestured Actor Hampden made a little curtain speech damning the modern fashion of "underplaying" a role, darkly warned that "this movement can result only in the hobbling of dramatic...
...James Mason," announced the British Information Services, "may soon become famous as a fashion artist. . . ." Basis for this conjecture: Cinema-Hard-Guy Mason had designed some ladies' scarves which were now turning up for sale in stores. Pictured by Actor Mason on the scarves: Noel Coward, the Masons' pet cats, James Mason & wife...
...Rate Idea. Pop Shapiro had had no intention of following it when he brought his immigrant family from Russia to Toledo, in 1914. He worked as a laborer and mechanic until he got a job as an advertising salesman on a small fashion trade magazine...
...them for 15?. He rented a small loft, and went to work with his son cutting out patterns. They cribbed their designs from department-store windows, movies, and dress companies, priced their patterns at 15? (and later 25?), while most others sold between 50? and $2. They eschewed high-fashion designs, kept their patterns easy to make. Most important, they printed cutting lines and instructions (in English and Spanish) on each piece of the paper pattern, in contrast to the traditional method of identifying pattern sections only by punched holes...
...Major Victor Zoller with a smile, as his hands were tied: "I am not a war criminal . . . neither were the others." Screamed the camp dentist as the rope was fastened: "Lord help me! ... I thought the American troops were here for justice & freedom." But death was welcomed, after a fashion, by August Eigruber, once Gauleiter of Upper Austria. "I consider it ... an honor," he snarled as the hood was placed over his head, "to be tried and hanged by the most inhuman of all victors." Anton Kaufmann was less resigned. Snapping the cords about his wrists as he plunged through...