Word: furness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among the 800 guests attending the fashionable wedding of U.S. Heiress Virginia Fortune Ryan and Britain's Lord Ogilvy (see MILESTONES) was South Pacific Star Mary Martin. The Texas-born wedding guest delighted the fashion-conscious by showing up in a fur coat, a hole-in-the-crown fur headpiece, an ear-warming hood anchored by a pearl choker...
Most important of the new middle-definers is the cinch belt. Strictly speaking, the cinch is a flat, rather wide, belt of almost any material--from humble grosgrain to velvet and fur--with an uncompromising elastic backing which allows the wearer to breathe a little while it nips her waistline to its smallest possible circumference. "Cinch" will probably become a generic term, however, for any belt playing a prominent role in costuming, including the classic brass-buckled leather belt as well as the shaped belt which tucks in at the waistline and spreads out to cover part...
...sweaters and tweeds, but a girl could conceivably branch out into monetone or even striped or polka-dotted grosgrain and possibly velveteen for daytime wear. After-five and night-life cinches encompass a staggering range of materials, from supple leathers (since sweaters are now correct at any hour) to fur, valvet, fake fur, and anything with sequins...
...conference itself, Aneurin Bevan, the errant mate in Labor's house, started the fur flying with a pyrotechnic display of wit, venom, vituperation and mock humility. "The U.S.," he told the conferees, is "hagridden by fears: fear of war and unemployment, and fear of peace." He accused Churchill and the U.S. of tying Britain's "economy to a perpetual war machine. This is rake's progress." However, the pink-cheeked Welshman twinkled cheerfully as he castigated his private enemies and Britain's friends alike, "I know I must be careful, lest I make a controversial speech...
Died. John Cobb, 52, London fur broker and world's auto speed champion (394.19 m.p.h. for one mile, at Utah's Bonneville Flats in 1947); in a speedboat accident; on Scotland's Loch Ness. Trying to break the world's one-mile speedboat record (178.4 m.p.h. held by Seattle's Stanley Sayres), Cobb gunned his jet-propelled "Crusader" hydroplane to about 200 m.p.h., was roaring toward the end of the course's first measured mile when the boat began skipping erratically and, in sight of his wife and friends, exploded in a cloud...