Word: fashioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jerry Lester, noted funny-man who took over Bing Crosby's program last summer, will provide the evenings laughs with his rapid-fire banter in the well-known Bob Hope fashion. Continuing in a light, though military vein, there will be brief non-official, non-technical talks by Lieutenant-Commander T. A. Collins, former Marine flier who is now senior member of the Naval Aviation Cadet Selection Board of the First Naval District, and Captain William F. Upton Jr., director of morale and recreation at Camp Edwards...
...sings a very good "Saint Louis Blues." Both these performers deserve the name artist, because they both know how to eliminate frills. Basie doesn't hit any extra notes that turn so much hot piano playing into noise. And Maxine Sullivan does not slide around her notes after the fashion of the lithesome torchsinger. These two are not the only top-notch people in the show. There is Jimmy Rushing, who puts all of his large person into telling the world he's "Movin" to the Outskirts of Town" to get rid of the grocery boy and the iceman...
First, to prevent radical fashion changes, Clothier Marcus "froze" the current silhouette. Then he eliminated extraneous frills: voluminous skirts, deep hems, full sleeves, wide belts. Third move was to ar range that coats and suits, jackets and dresses be sold separately, to make them go further. These changes should save 100,000,000 yards of cloth...
...spread his propaganda, Marcus had wangled advance cooperation from the National Retail Dry Goods Association. Fortnight ago merchant members in 250 cities met with local press and radio editors, asked them please, when the ruling came out, for once not to treat women's fashions as merely funny. The Association then supplied radio stations and newspapers with reassuring fashion advice from leading U.S. clothes designers: Sophie Gimbel, Clare Potter, Nettie Rosenstein and others...
Japanese flying ships are playing over the Mandalay Road in a fashion Kipling never imagined. Jap pilots fix towns under their sights like bugs beneath a microscope, stab them with hundreds of incendiary plummets, consume wide wooded areas and wipe out scores of villages. Flames nightly lick the demi-jungle under a full yellow moon, so that a ghastly orange ring encircles Burmese arsonists, looters, desolate lines of Indians' oxcarts beginning to go northward on their long hegira to India, and Chinese trucks, cyclists, American scout cars and artillery going southward to the front...