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...scared not to read Women's Wear. We are influenced by it?everybody in fashion is." So are some 10,000 other readers outside the industry, who are fascinated by WWD's piquant brew of gossip, profiles, trendy tips and incisive reviews. Eleanor Lambert, fashion's foremost publicist, is no particular fan of Women's Wear, and vice versa. Still, she feels that the paper "has the same impact as Walter Winchell once did. Winchell humanized the theater and let people see glimpses of human foible behind the scenes. Women's Wear has done the same to fashion. The press...
...largely a matter of having a large and effusive talent-or sheer ambition-that simply had to spread into other fields. When Pianist Leon Fleisher took the podium last week at Manhattan's Philharmonic Hall, however, it was a case of dire necessity. Though he was once the foremost pianist of his generation, his right hand has been partly crippled since 1965, and he is trying to establish himself in a new career...
...their own in 1965, and can now legally receive mail without husbandly interference-they are still hampered by many thoughtless inequities. Day-care centers are scarce, businessmen are reluctant to hire women on a part-time basis. The French feminist movement is small but growing. One of the foremost groups is Le Mouvernent Démocratique Féminine. Their aim: to politicize women so that they will demand their rights from the government. The French fashion magazine Elle is sponsoring Women's Lib discussion groups around the country; this November, Elle will play host to a three...
...social commitment that is spreading through U.S. commerce and industry. Ordinarily, Ford is one of Detroit's less accessible executives, yet on this occasion he talked open WITH deep regret I report the death in Rome last week of Alwyn Lee, who has been TIME'S foremost literary critic. He was, as a colleague fondly puts it, "a swinger of the intellect. Until one met him, one never fully understood what the college president means at commencement time when he invites you into 'the fellowship of educated...
...senior at California State Polytechnic College, Chi Cheng has adapted to the West. She likes supermarkets. She digs rock music. And when she runs, only her competitors are embarrassed. Undefeated so far this season, she has established herself as the world's foremost female track star. At the National A.A.U. Championships in Los Angeles, she ran the 220-yd. dash in 22.6 sec., besting her own world record by one-tenth of a second. Last month the muscular (5 ft. 7½ in., 136 lb.) Chi set a world record of 10 sec. flat in the 100-yd. dash...