Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Says Miss Russell: "There are no interviews quite like TIME's. Usually an interviewer has limited time and wants something specific-something on a film or fashion, on make-up or why you want to play a part-but a personality interview really throws you. You don't know quite what to do-go into your tap dance, recite a poem you learned at the age of four or what. You're rather embarrassed when you realize that you've been saying nothing but 'I, I, I,' for three hours! And all the time...
...massacre of the Ruck family, Kukes were rounded up in large numbers, marched to a barbed-wire camp for "screening," beaten and kicked (reliable witnesses say) en route, including women with babies strapped on their backs. The number of Kikuyu "shot trying to escape" has risen in remarkable fashion. One Kenya police reserve unit hauled in four Kikuyu men. The prisoners were taken away in a truck, but when the truck reached its destination, all four Kikuyu were dead. It was said that they had "tried to escape." None of the four was armed. Kikuyu (including at least one woman...
...move has only served to heighten the ulcer-forming problems of the merchandising executive. All the old problems of daily sales reports, increased expense problems, profit responsibilities, slow selling merchandise, fashion trends, and long hours have taken on a new suburban slant. The result has been to make the retailer's job one of the toughest and most unpredictable in any field. Rapid turn overs in executive positions are the rule, not the exception...
...even for the experienced buyer the field offers a minimum of security. Retailing is a fashion business. If a buyer does not have what the people want, he goes. few stores will risk hiring a buyer or merchandise manage for more than one year at a time. A buyer may even be extremely successful for several years, then he dumped for not surpassing his previous record. Often the buyer goes for reasons over which he has no control...
...conservatively glum over the loss of a not-so-cherished institution. St. Louisans in general shrugged-though a hard core of St. Louis Browns fans was outraged, and Mayor Joseph M. Darst filed an injunction against the chief instigator of it all, Browns Owner Bill Veeck. In such fashion last week, the cities most concerned reacted to the possibility of the first major-league franchise shifts in 50 years-the scheme to move the St. Louis Browns to Baltimore, the Boston Braves to Milwaukee...