Word: fashioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...daylight was for publishing, and this was hard work. In the area he created, and in which he was lord, Nast became as expert as an assayer. His primary task as a publisher was to choose editors who best knew how to choose-out of the flooding hundreds of fashion ideas, from ruffles to shoes to dinner-table glassware-the fashions which had that indefinable "smartness" which he could sense, almost by smell. Then he-and they-went to work on the presentation-to "bait the editorial pages," as he once unblushingly said, "in such a way as to lift...
Vogue ran far ahead of this chill and modest ambition. Throughout the '20s and '30s, in its pages Nast decided what made fashion-sense in the welter of Parisian, New York and Hollywood ideas, about everything from decor to dogs. The Dest-dressed women in all U.S. towns were Vogue subscribers; stores fought to listed as outlets for goods advertised in Vogue, and thus the Nast judgments set patterns far beyond Vogue's own cirulation of a few hundred thousand. To his own women-readers Nast brought the excitement of modern art, from Seurat to Modigliani...
...short, voluble bit of human voltage named Bessie Beatty,* a onetime San Francisco newspaper reporter, writer for women's magazines and editor of McCall's. From rough notes, busy Bessie ad libs over Mutual's WOR (11:15-12) on food, books, fashion, war news, people, places. Sometimes she gets kidded by Announcer Dick Willard and Husband Bill Sauter, a quiet, wisecracking ex-actor who contributes a felicitous conjugal note that draws plaintive queries from mismated listeners. Sometimes Bessie whips up half a program with prominent guest interviewees...
...Some time ago you spoke of the difficulty night-shift workers have in sleeping in the daytime [TIME, June 15]. A black sock worn spectacle fashion should help (the toe over one ear, the top over the other-and the middle covering eyes and nose). It is cool, dark and comfortable...
...week's end, with the important convention but a few days off, Farley seemed in a less pugnacious mood. He called Franklin Roosevelt "the beacon of hope of civilization"; he indicated, in true party fashion, that he would support Jim Mead if Mead got the nomination. Observers wondered whether Jim Farley was getting ready to toss in the towel or was just seeming to relax before throwing a crushing punch...