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...Joseph Magnin, adding, "I spend more time on the quality problem than anything else." Margaret Dadian, vice president for the Midwest's Kay Campbell's Shops, headquartered in Evanston, Ill., calls the problem "the biggest, fattest nuisance in the world; it gets me ready to explode." Says Helen Galland, vice president and general merchandise manager of Bonwit Teller in Manhattan: "We could run a button business on the side. The manufacturers have not yet perfected a method of keeping them...
...less complicated than present offerings, with soft fabrics and classic lines predominating. "The gag thing is over," says Designer Chester Weinberg. "Now clothes are going to become simpler." Until stores can be stocked with these Utopian raiments, women will have to follow the advice of Bonwit's Helen Galland: "People should look closely. It is very obvious what is well made and what is not." Or a woman could simply give in to the natural impulse to wear a newly purchased dress out of the store. If the buttons fall off or the seams split before she gets...
...entries date back to 1607, and the most recent are women who died in 1950 (thus excluding such perennial favorites as Helen Keller, Zelda Fitzgerald, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Marilyn Monroe). Still, the dictionary is a treasury of role-models, drawn clearly enough for those who have trouble naming an American woman they admire but detailed enough for those who are already champions of "herstory...
Orwellian Horror. By last week, when the first two hostels were scheduled to open, the proposed living conditions had raised a storm of protest. Progressive Party M.P. Helen Suzman called the hostels an "Orwellian horror." White women, churchmen and students staged placard protests. Some of the shock felt by chic matrons over the city's "white by night" policy, as it is called, was undoubtedly at the prospect of having no servants to wait on candlelit dinner parties-but by no means all of it was. At a jampacked citizens' meeting, Anglican Bishop John Carter condemned the hostels...
...following Radcliffe juniors have been elected to Phi Betta Kappa: Marian B. Carlson of South House and Paris, France; Elizabeth J. Coe of Lowell House and Larchmont, N.Y.; Catherine A. Guyton of Quincy House and Jackson, Miss.; Helen M. Hershkoff of Eliot House and Rockaway Park, N.Y.; Yeou-Cheng Marie-Therese Ma of North House and New York City; Margaret V. Sacks of Lowell House and Washington, D.C.; Laura Schafer of Adams House and New Haven, Conn.; and Sharon Shurts of Dunster House and Waterford, Conn...