Word: glamourizer
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...fashion world has never really got the hang of glamour. Hollywood too often defines it in terms of cleavage, Seventh Avenue too readily as spangles and fringes. When it comes to elegance, the field is still held by Paris. But wardrobes the world over are filled with more than ball gowns and capes, and, increasingly over the past few years, the U.S. has come to dominate the other, everyday end of the closet. As the fall collection previews drew to a close last week in Manhatan, they proved that the American sporty look is undisputedly tops...
...their old Stork Club stamping ground, both agreed there will be none of that coming-out foolishness for Victoria. "Too many people see the debut as a goal," declares Brenda, "but perspective is more important. I want my daughter to have a full life." Recently ill, the former Glamour Girl admits that her own perspective was improved by two years of psychoanalysis. "I'm very happy now-and looking forward, not backward...
...campaign, Hughes's shrewdest advisors had urged him to do precisely what Tocsin had failed to do--to draw the connections between the arms race and other domestic and diplomatic issues; the campaign was to be distinguished by the intellectual cogency of Hughes's arguments, rather than by the glamour and vacuity which characterize American campaigns--not least of all Teddy's. Hughes had taken their advice and did not change his tack during the Cuban crisis; as he pointed out in an article in Commentary several months after the elections to do anything but criticize the haste and melodrama...
...living on pork and beans. While in high school, he taught grade school to pay his way. "Those were challenging days." he remembers. "Some of the children were older than I." When he at length became a much respected rural school superintendent. Mallory refused better-paying jobs with urban glamour. "I had an idea that you could work out as good a program for children here as anywhere else," he says. A "Teacherage." In 1947 the tiny Buffalo school district hit its debt limit and ran out of money. Without blinking, Mallory used his 20-year savings...
Steaks & Mayonnaise. Prohibition's end robbed the speakeasies of their glamour, and in 1935 Bleeck renamed his joint the "Artist & Writers' Restaurant, Formerly Club" (Dorothy Thompson dubbed it "The Formerly Club"). To the horror of regulars, Bleeck also began admitting ladies. Groused one male: "There'll be mayonnaise on the steaks next week...