Word: hat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What the critters lacked in talent they made up in hard work. They wiggled through more walking lessons than Brigitte Bardot, and rasped themselves raw-handed to perfect the fast draw. Times without number they blasted holes in their own britches, and one of them, while poking his hat brim with a pistol, accidentally shot his own sideburns off. They became the prima donnas of horse opera, and sometimes it seemed as if they would rather pull hair than triggers. "Oh, Hugh O'Brian doesn't matter," Dale Robertson sniffed recently. "He's just a itty-bitty...
Clint Walker (6 ft. 6 in.. 235 lbs., 48-32-36), who after a spectacular case of bunkhouse sulks will shortly resume the big hat in Cheyenne, a routine ride-'em-cowboy story, is generally known in Hollywood as "the next John Wayne." At 31 he looks rather like an unweathered Wayne, with a nice, uneventful face and a chest as big as a wardrobe-on producer's orders, he bares it at least once a program. But unfortunately, Clint, according to the people he works with, is "a mighty mixed-up kid." He is a nature...
...shape of things to come in Easter bonnets-and most other hats-is largely determined by a short, pert, alert woman who is one of the U.S.'s most successful businesswomen. Sally Victor, 54, is not.only the biggest fashion hatmaker (more than $500,000 a year) in the multimillion-dollar millinery business (1958 sales: $300 million), but she is a trend setter (along with such designers as Mr. John and Lilly Dache), the only milliner to win the Coty award, fashion world "Oscar." Her $55-to-$90 creations (up to $1,000 with fur or jewelry) soon reappear...
...hat industry, long in a slump, is now on the way back. From a total of $400 million in the '20s, hat sales dropped to a low of $250 million in 1953. Part of the trouble was a shift in fashion; the longtime dictum that every woman had to wear a hat to be well dressed almost died in the flight to the suburbs and the new, casual living. But fault also lay with the hatmakers; hats became too silly even for women to wear. Says Designer Victor: "We forgot one thing-to make the hats pretty...
...hats so high priced? Top hat workers get high wages ($4.50 an hour) and spend an average of six hours' work on a Victor hat. The markup is high (100% to make up for the seasonal nature of hats, greater sales risk and packing costs...