Word: fashioner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...become the famous Edna Woolman Chase, "no one worked very hard and anybody who wanted extra duties was welcome to them." For more than a half-century, Edna Chase gracefully collected unclaimed duties. By the time she retired as editor in chief in 1952, she had carried high fashion from the salons of Paris to the sidewalks of Wichita, and expanded Vogue from a mirror of New York society into an international arbiter of taste, a cultural force icily confident of its ability to decide what the world's females should wear. "Vogue," Editor Chase once simply explained...
Shortly after Nast made her editor in chief in 1914. Edna Chase scored one of Vogue's biggest coups. World War I cut off the U.S. from style-setting Paris designers. To clothe fashion's nakedness, she assembled New York society for America's first fashion show, using clothes by a handful of neglected American designers. The fashion show, which became a national institution after the war, and the slick pages of Vogue, showing only what Edna Chase deemed acceptable, remade the nation's clothing industry. American manufacturers suddenly discovered a healthy market for mass-produced...
Pursuing the ideal of high fashion, Edna Chase looked more like a society matron than a dedicated editor. Although she often joked about her large mouth ("Do put thy hand up when thee smiles." her mother had warned), she had a refined beauty plus forthright personal charm, and dressed, as she preached, with simple elegance. She was first married to Frank D. Chase, a hotel manager and the father of her only child, Actress and Author Ilka Chase. This marriage ended in divorce, and she later married Engineer Richard Newton, who died...
...shatters the marine's dreams of spending their lives alone together, "at least until the war ends," in classic insular-paradise fashion by assuring him that, although she hasn't yet taken her final vows, her heart is already given to Christ. But "Allison's luck" in being marooned with a good-looking nun dents his ego only momentarily, for Japs shell the island and land off and on, and the emotional stalemate is overshadowed by a hide-and-seek fight for their lives, which takes all of Mr. Allison's frustrated energies...
During the working day it helps to pray: "Lord, fill me with enthusiasm for my product (naming it)." With nightfall comes the time to "flush negatives," to practice "mind-drainage," or (after the fashion of Author Peale himself) to "visualize 'dropping' mental impedimenta into an imaginary wastebasket...