Word: fashionability
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...formal occasions she wears hatty hats, motherly dressmaker suits, and for a handbag-a majestic holdall." The pussycats of London's fashion press were helping Britain's Princess Anne celebrate her 16th birthday with some swipes at her clothes. "All those conventions of British royal dress have been decanted on her," complained the London Sunday Express's writer, though conceding that Anne does have "the young idea when she's off duty." Well, did that mean miniskirts? Not at all. In Jamaica with Prince Charles for the Commonwealth Games, she made the scene in a pair...
...direction. "Editorially," says New York Times Executive Editor Turner Catledge, "they couldn't seem to make up their minds whether to slug it out toe-to-toe with us or to try to outflank us." The Trib still had stars: Drama Critic Walter Kerr, TV Critic John Crosby, Fashion Editor Eugenia Sheppard, Food Editor Clementine Paddle-ford; Columnists Red Smith, Art Buchwald, Joe Alsop and Walter Lippmann; Pulitzer Prizewinning Korean War Correspondents Homer Bigart and Marguerite Higgins. But while they still provided some bite, the paper had no molars. Able reporters and rewritemen, a paper's lifeblood, were...
...Wife Dorothy, whom he married in 1927 after a courtship that began when a mutual friend introduced them on a commuter train, live in a shyly elegant ranch house in Westfield, N.J., an hour's trip by train and ferryboat from Wall Street. Thomson, in Merrill Lynch fashion, is an eager train-and evening-out bridge player; though he has a bent-armed swing, he plays golf in the low 80s, has certificates to prove that he has thrice scored holes in one. His two children, both grown and married, remain close to the marketing place. Son Donald...
...called Educare, has attracted 160 students. It will add another 25 next fall and will honor its first graduate this summer. She is Mrs. Amanda Hicks, 67, who turned to teaching school and operating a 450-acre farm after her husband died in 1940. She chuckles at the turnabout fashion in which her grandchildren keep warning, "You better get to your studying, Grandma...
...have also produced a reading kit, which includes word cards, parents' manual and child's book. Parents have spent $400,000 on the kits-at $19.95 each-but a mother could do as well with just the $3.95 Doman book, plus a lettering pen and cardboard to fashion her own cards...