Word: lane
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...CHARLES LANE...
Raphael B. Malsin, president of the Lane Bryant, Inc. chain (stylish stouts & maternity clothes) patiently explained to Advertising Man Bowles that a store might have bought 1,000 sun suits at $2 each to sell at $3. But on March 19 twenty of the least desirable suits might have been marked down to $2 each; a few to $1, just to get them off the shelves. Result: the composite average of these three prices would be $2. Then on reorders the merchant's selling price would be frozen at cost...
Larks sang in the spring sky and the shaky-legged lambs frisked in the German fields. In some of the smashed beer houses were broken pianos, drums, brass horns. But the most fascinating thing in sight was the rolling ribbon of the Autobahn -the four-lane superhighway connecting Frankfurt am Main and the Ruhr...
...European Artists in America," a show limited to work by 39 Continental refugees. The display ranged all the way from swooning sensuality (Nude Reclining, an oil by Moise Kisling) to attenuated, nihilistic preciosity (Boîte-en-Valise, an "object" by Marcel Duchamp). Between these bypaths lay a two-lane highway of abstraction and surrealism. Outstanding was 44-year-old French Surrealist Yves Tanguy's Un Lieu Oblique (An Oblique Place), a meticulous composition suggesting a segment of interstellar space strewn with broken propeller parts, spilt putty, the detached, heraldic bowsprits of unicorns...
...Herewith a photograph of Sculptress Lane, 46, unmarried...