Word: fashioner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tried, after the McGinnis fashion, to win the public esteem. He jazzed up the New Haven's freight cars with an eye-catching black, white and Chinese vermilion paint job. (The color scheme was concocted by Lucile McGinnis.) He inaugurated an electronic reservation system, and offered free caboose rides to Cub Scouts. But his public-be-damned attitude kept slipping through. Although 63% of the New Haven's business comes from passengers, McGinnis has an illconcealed conviction that commuters are a liability. He has seemed to go out of his way to aggravate every bad situation and antagonize...
...Gurion speaks of Nasser in the same reluctant-enmity fashion. He told TIME: "For a time I considered Nasser a patriot and an honest man. He has a fine figure, a pleasant smile, a nice face-really he gives the appearance of being a nice fellow-and all those people believe he is sincere. But when I asked General Burns [the U.N. mediator], an honest man, to get one little thing from Nasser-an order for a ceasefire, he couldn...
...France, one of playboy Prince Aly Khan's legal eagles allowed that His Highness will soon take a third wife, top Parisian Mannequin Simone Bodin, 30, renowned as Bettina in the fashion world...
...foist such a tale upon clamorous Americans requires some audacity. Yet the attempt is successful because it is never strained and because each of the three principals has carefully developed a character. The Church of England is doubtless happy to be exported in such a complimentary fashion. It probably recognizes that there are few Anglican preachers who can get church-bound schoolboys to listen as attentively as Robert Donat succeeds in doing. Apparently, even the bulbous Dean of Gilchester, symbolic of church authority, approves in some small measure of his "live life while you live it" philosophy...
...moviedom's topflight fashion plates, spry Boulevardier Adolphe Menjou, 65, happy veteran of more than 21 years of marriage to Verree Teasdale Menjou, paid tribute to the sartorial keystone of the marital arch. Suavely twirling his waxy mustache, Cinemactor Menjou advised: "If men would pay more attention to appearances, there would be fewer divorces. When a man goes around in a baggy, ill-fitting suit, looking something like a fugitive from the Bowery, it's no wonder that his wife loses interest in him [and] the tinsel starts to wear off the romance." Some of his helpful hints...