Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Flirtation. Mendès-France's most effective public appearance was at a National Press Club luncheon, where he explained France's problems and position in lucid and illuminating fashion. He promised early French ratification of the Paris agreements for a united defense of free Europe, scorned the Soviet proposal for a Pan-European conference and dispelled doubts that he might be thinking of a Franco-Russian flirtation. "As Prime Minister of France," he said, "I am convinced that our number one task is to fight against the deceptive attractions of Communism with the positive weapons of truth...
Died. Jacques Fath, 42, French dress designer who parlayed a one-room Paris salon into a $2,000,000-a-year business; of leukemia; in Paris. One of the three giants of postwar Paris fashion (the others: Christian Dior and Pierre Balmain), Fath branched into the U.S. market in 1948 with a ready-to-wear line sold in 200 cities by such stores as Lord & Taylor, I. Magnin, Neiman-Marcus...
...days later, Der Alte confronted Dehler and his FDP leaders in his office at Palais Schaumburg. In conciliatory fashion, he offered to convey to the French any points the FDP had to make. Experts were scheduled to meet to work out some details anyway, and the points could be brought up then. The FDP leaders emerged looking pleased. Exuberantly, Party Deputy Chairman August Martin Euler told newsmen that there were going to be new Saar talks with the French. "Reopening of Saar talks," said the headlines. No such thing, answered the French Foreign Office. Hastily the German Foreign Office sent...
...Fashion. In Montgomery, Ala., Judge Eugene Carter granted a divorce to a woman who charged that her husband was unfaithful to her on their wedding night...
...three principals-Holliday, Lemmon and Carson-have spent so much of their acting careers in the straitjacket of formula farce that they wear it like high-fashion undies. Carson is a very slick comedian; his expression, as he muses on the possibilities of a round bed, could hardly have been improved on by W. C. Fields. Holliday and Lemmon, after only two pictures together, must be acknowledged as the smoothest new comedy team in show business. A nice bit: Holliday, slopping together an amateur Martini for Carson, says anxiously, "I probably bruised the gin." Carson looks. "Not a mark...