Word: harpers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Yaleman Hobson moved into a job well calculated to suit a carriage-trade taste. He became managing editor of Harper's Bazaar (circ. 340,605), Sanhedrin of the high-fashion world. Hobson replaces Frances MacFadden, who retired after 18 years in the post. As the new M.E., Hobson will be chiefly concerned with Bazaar's non-fashion articles. But he will also read fashion copy and make criticisms from a man's point of view. Explained Editor Carmel Snow: "I think a man is terribly good for woman editors-I don't just mean...
Hobson put it somewhat differently. Said he: "My connection with the fashion operation of Harper's Bazaar is at best gossamer. However, at what Cole Porter has described as the charming age of puberty, I ceased drawing racing automobiles and began to draw women, with equal detail, and with what I like to think was even more combustible effect...
...later commanded the Fifth Army in its long, bitter fight up the Italian peninsula. This week, as it must to all generals (it seems), publication day came to Four-Star General Mark Clark, now Chief of the Army Field Forces. In readable, relaxed prose, Clark's Calculated Risk (Harper; $5) candidly describes the clashes between commanders and Allies, assigns praise & blame with soldierly bluntness...
NAPOLEON'S MEMOIRS [605 pp.) -Edited by Somerset de Chair-Harper...
...FEARFUL JOY (343 pp.)-Joyce Gary-Harper...