Word: fashionability
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Your Oct. 11 fashion story is a gem of obfuscated hindsight. Formfit and Emilio Pucci fired the first unembarrassed shot in the war against the monobuttock with the introduction of the natural-back "Viva" panty girdle in 1957. We have not done any "feeling," crawling or walking toward "falsiefication" since that time...
...congratulations to the author of that fashion note "Curving the Curple" on his near creation of a literary gem on a subject that under prosaic treatment would have been something worse than gauche...
...spirit, the U.S. and Russia again exchanged nationals who had been held on charges of spying. It was the second time the two countries have swapped prisoners in this fashion. The first: Communist Agent Rudolf Abel was traded for U-2 Pilot Gary Powers in 1962. In last week's exchange the U.S. released Ivan Egorov, a Soviet U.N. functionary, and his wife Alexandra, who were arrested last July in New York for espionage. In return, the Soviets let go 24-year-old Fulbright Scholar Marvin Makinen, who was sentenced to eight years in prison in 1961 on photo...
...Hotel Cecil, London, Villa Paquita, Juan-les-Pins, France, La Paix, Rodger's Ford, Towson, Md., and the Garden of Allah Hotel, Hollywood, are the datelines of his letters, and they are printed by Editor Turnbull, who is also Fitzgerald's biographer, in the sensible fashion of grouping them with the people they were addressed to. Mostly they are to his mother, his daughter, his agent, his editor at Scribner (Maxwell Perkins), to his old Princeton pals, Wilson and John Peale Bishop. What shines through them all is his dogged devotion to his craft and to his friends...
...bring Ireland-the beautiful, inspired, elegant, romantic Ireland-to America." Lord & Taylor sent out two advance scouts with cameras and expense accounts to see what the Emerald Isle had to offer. Wave after wave followed -two vice presidents, two merchandise managers, 26 buyers, display men, art directors, photographers, fashion editors. Eleven months, 48 transatlantic crossings, and more than $1,000,000 later, Lord & Taylor has assembled enough Eireana to stun St. Patrick...