Word: hartfords
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Married. Howard Hawks, 56, cinema director (Scarface, Red River); and Dee Hartford (real name: Donna Higgins), 26, brunette New York model; he for the third time, she for the first; in Hollywood...
Outside a glassy new brick and marble store in West Hartford, Conn, last week, a squad of men worked feverishly wiring 40,000 artificial appleblossoms to a score of real trees. Inside the entrance, four sequined, papier-mâché peacocks bore signs proclaiming: WE'RE PROUD AS A PEACOCK TO BE IN HARTFORD. This week the building opened its doors with a peacock-proud flourish: ten gallons of Arpege perfume (retails at $23.50 an ounce) were sprayed around the entrance...
...Lord & Taylor, bossed by go-getting Dorothy Shaver. It is just the beginning of an expansion program in which Retailer Shaver hopes to "blow perfume across the nation." She is invading the territory of another smart woman operator: Beatrice Fox Auerbach, 65, who has made her G. Fox & Co. Hartford's biggest store...
...started as head comparison shopper 29 years ago and rose steadily to Lord & Taylor's top post in 1945, has since boosted the store's sales 62% to more than $50 million. She launched three suburban branches, kept sales of her Fifth Avenue store rising. In West Hartford, as elsewhere, Dorothy Shaver hopes to keep sales booming by catering to "the American woman who wants clothes to be a part of her personality...
...past few years, Doug, who calls himself an "international commuter," and his Virginia-born second wife (the former Mrs. G. Huntington Hartford, who succeeded Joan Crawford) have been more & more selective about the guests they choose to share their dining room. Abandoned are the ostentatious parties for 300 or more which Doug once gave in honor of such friends as Noel Coward and Earl Mountbatten of Burma. At No. 28, The Boltons, in fashionable South Kensington, the Fairbankses now confine themselves to more intimate affairs with a guest list whittled down to a mere 30 or 40. "There...