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Henrietta Kanengeiser never learned to cut a dress; her needlework was atrocious, and if she ventured to baste a hem it was likely to sag. Yet she wore clothes with a verve that trailed rapt feminine stares behind her like smoke from a gold-tipped cigarette. And she had an intuitive sense for that ill-defined and mysterious quality, taste. To two generations of American women Henrietta-or, as she was better known, Hattie Carnegie-was the quintessence of feminine fashion. Last week, at 69, Hattie Carnegie died of cancer, and left few peers in the bewildering business of adorning...
Upon docking in Manhattan on another leg of the honeymoon following a quasi-medieval wedding in Venice (TIME, Oct. 3), a Mexico City Volkswagen salesman, known better to the international set as empireless Prince Alfonso Maximilian Hohenlohe-Langenburg, 31, took a camera and delicately lifted the skirt hem of his voluptuous bride, Princess Virginia Ira Furstenberg, 15, to make a different kind of cheesecake shot for avid tabloid photographers...
...Joseph Lead Co. and Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal decided that this would be all the help they needed to put .hem in the aluminum business. The companies told ODM that they jointly plan to build an $85 million aluminum plant with an annual capacity of up to 66,000 tons. Thus the Big Three, which becomes the Big Four later this year when Anaconda Copper gets its 60,000-ton aluminum smelter operating, may turn into a Big Five within a few years...
This spring's New Look in Soviet foreign policy--featuring neutral tones and alterations in the Western hem of the Iron Curtain has worried many designers of the Atlantic coalition. In their Paris, London and Washington shops, theses men are fearful that the new line putt out by the slick stylists of the Kremlin may draw off much of the demand for their new pattern. But of all the Russian offerings, most concern has focused on a striking neutral creation called "Reunified Germany" which has excited considerable interest among Europeans...
after graduating, Lamont was co-author in 1936 of an article intended for he Alumni Bulletin, listing and discussing radicals who had attended the College. "Harvard long ago learned," hem wrote, "that the rebels and heretics of today are the leaders accepted by tomorrow. The stamp of the New England Puritan aristocracy is all over it--its economic conservatism along with its tolerance of dissent." The Bulletin refused to print his article, fearing it would prevent conservative alumni from contributing to the Tercentenary Fund. But later it appeared in the Advocate and in the Nation...