Word: fashioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the flossy fashion-trade magazine Kaleidoscope made its bow this fall, magazine men were amazed at the jet-propelled speed with which it had been put together (TIME, Sept. 13). Last week, Kaleidoscope set another speed record of sorts: after only three issues, it fizzled out like a spent rocket. On Thanksgiving eve dismissal notices went to the staff...
...burned up $800,000 invested by Backers Harold Talbott, Jack Chrysler, Angier Biddle Duke, Joe Uihlein Jr. (Schlitzbeer) and others. To keep going, Kaleidoscope needed another $1,400,000, and nobody wanted to risk that much. Explained Publisher William Husted: "There's a falling market in the fashion industry right now ... and we just didn't get enough advertising." (From 172 pages of ads in October, sales had dropped to 56 in November, only 22½ in December...
Miss Laughton was selected only after a long search to find some one who could fill the requirements of classical beauty posed by the part, Temple said. When Helen reigned as beauty queen of Troy, fashion had it that women were of generous proportions. Padding was a term used only to describe a cat's means of locomotion...
...made it its $15 million-a-year business to make sure that skiers got to the wilds suitably groomed to: 1) ski and 2) impress other skiers. Last week, with snow falling in Canada's Laurentians and in the U.S. Midwest, department stores went after the skiers with fashion shows, grand openings and a fanfare of flashy publicity...
...Gushed a fashion writer: "Ski wear in general has got over the whimsies and settled down to functional good looks." To many an old skier it looked as if the new functionalism-designed chiefly for women-had taken the sport right off the slopes and into the cocktail lounge...