Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan in 1946, he learned to his surprise and pain that U.S. dress designers considered Paris washed up as the fashion center of the world. Back home he looked up a then-obscure friend named Christian Dior, sketched a plan of action and cried, "There is no other way. You must be Joan of Arc!" Bérard, his friends believe, was the real begetter of the "New Look...
...week, everybody recognized President Milt (Steve Canyon) Caniff and Chief Speaker Al (Li'l Abner) Capp at the head table. But most of the 200 guests did not know the big, sandy-haired fellow in the place of honor. Murat Bernard ("Chic") Young, on his first visit to Manhattan in ten years, looked more like a small-town businessman than the $300,000-a-year creator of the world's most widely syndicated comic strip (Blondie), and the cartoonists' choice as best cartoonist of the year...
...cartooning in New York. He made the big time with Dumb Dora, then sold Hearst's King Features Syndicate on the idea of Blondie. After 1 8 years of drawing Blondie, 48- year-old Cartoonist Young still finds it a chore. To help him meet deadlines, he quit Manhattan in 1939 for the quiet of a small fruit ranch in Van Nuys, Calif. There, he settles himself before a drawing board every Thursday at 9 a.m. and works for 1 6 hours. At bedtime, he has almost finished five daily Blondie strips. A neat, fast worker, he rarely changes...
...balmy day last week, a Manhattan housewife shopped for her summer clothes. In one store she eyed a cotton dress, turned on her heel when she saw the $40 price tag. But before she could get away, the saleswoman stopped her; the dress had just been marked down. The new price was $15; the customer took...
Married. Francis X. (for Xavier) Shields, 38, No. 1 ranking U.S. tennis player in 1933 and onetime Davis Cupper (1934); and Katharine Mortimer Biddle, 26, Manhattan socialite; he for the third time, she for the second; in Manhattan...