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...Fashion news," that mélange of contradictions and bug-eyed naïvetés, made sense to nobody, will make sense only as weeks go by and a certain number of the high-priced creations, paraded last week, begin to appear, in copies, on millions of U. S. women. A few broad trends were seen, however, by practiced observers. At the end of the week unofficial tabulations revealed that the skirt, so far as length was concerned, was precisely where the summer left it - 13½ to 15½ in. from the ground. But full skirts, ranging from...
...flashes of brilliant writing. Its central character is a comic grotesque called Wilt, a washed-out, oldtime, expatriate newspaperman, middleaged, garrulous, full of stories he never got around to writing. In a promising beginning, Wilt is introduced on a Paris street corner in mysterious talk with a big, naïve pal named Bernie, a medical student just arrived from the Midwest in hopes of meeting his hero, a famed French toxicologist. Wilt, who had met Bernie only a few hours before, offers to arrange the meeting...
...Advertising was destined to become the midwife for mass distribution and Printers' Ink soon became a handmaid for advertisers. Today, Printers' Ink, still pocket-size, is a weekly with 17,803 subscribers who spend nearly all of the nation's annual $1,768,000,000 na tional advertising budget. This week it marked its golden anniversary with a 472-page special edition summarizing the development of U. S. business as it was recorded in P. I.'s 2,571 preceding issues...
...Nourse is not so naïve, however, as to maintain that all price mistakes can be thus explained. As an example of "the way in which, under modern methods of finance capitalism, the business policies of companies may be warped by forces remote," he cites the participation of National City Bank and Anaconda Copper Mining Co. in the famed campaign to peg copper prices artificially high in the late 1920s in order to grab extra profits from sale of securities. Inevitable result was chaos in the industry and the price broke from...
...jazz as to good. Young Man with a Horn sounds right when Author Baker writes about the hard, homely details of musicians' lives, the routine of rehearsals, fights, salaries, jealousies, weariness, interrupted with moments of feverish musical excitement. It comes out strong when she describes the naïve snobbery of Jack Stuart's Collegians, with its clean-cut young leader artfully squelching better musicians than himself. Why Author Baker wrote a trimmed-up novel instead of a straight biography of Bix Beiderbecke is a question Young Man with a Horn raises but does not answer...