Word: harpers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...subject was miniskirts, and her judgment was that "never in the history of fashion have so many illusions been destroyed in so short a time." Such sentiments were catnip both to the readers of Harper's Bazaar and to the judges of the first annual Magazine Awards given jointly by the J. C. Penney Co. and the University of Missouri. The panel awarded a $1,000 prize in the fashion and beauty category to stylish Stout-Heiress Gloria Guinness, 53, for her article in the June 1966 Bazaar deploring the "short, short, short skirt" as "that crazy young look...
While Horace Greeley did not write his autobiography until he was 57 and Henry Adams waited until he was 67, Willie Morris was in more of a hurry. Just six months after becoming editor in chief of Harper's, he has published his memoirs at 32. "It could have been an act of real pretension," he concedes, and it probably is. But Morris decided to "tell it as it really is, to tell the reader something about belonging in America...
Morris, it is clear, plans to maintain a civil tone in Harper's. "Ideas are not enough," he says. "The human quality has to be there...
...about 45% of all liquor purchases, usually for the family. To win over to particular brands this rising number of sippers and shoppers, the industry is doing everything from putting out primers on cordials (National Distillers Products Co.) to promoting fashion shows in which the clothes carry I. W. Harper Kentucky Bourbon labels (Schenley Industries Inc.). Currently, $25 million worth of holiday wrapping is being tucked around package goods to give it a glossy, eye-catching sheen for the Christmas trade, which accounts for 15% of all sales. The color combinations of blue, green and lavender and the expensive embossed...
...atheist Russia, a Bible story! After more than a quarter of a century of suppression, The Master and Margarita, by Soviet Novelist Mikhail Bulgakov, has surfaced as a magazine serial in Russia, and in two translations in the U.S. The full text is published by Harper & Row, and the cut-down Russian version by Grove Press. Doubtless the U.S. publishers are right in claiming that the novel is "the most talked-about literary work in Russia today." Bulgakov, who died in 1940, is officially described in the Soviet Encyclopaedia as "a slanderer of Soviet reality." The work...