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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Edna Chase was a shrewd, resourceful scrapper. For years she feuded (but always in discreet modulations) with Publisher William Randolph Hearst, who bought Harper's Bazaar to compete with Vogue in 1913, later wooed away much of her top talent, including her heiress apparent, Carmel Snow. (Although they often appear to be identical twins, Vogue still leads Harper's Bazaar in circulation, 392,507 to 365,023, and Old Rival Snow, now editor in chief, readily admits "Edna Chase really started fashion journalism...
...more often than not, Edna Chase backed causes that succeeded. Vogue gave Humorist Dorothy Parker her first break, printed huge chunks of Novelist Thomas Wolfe's Niagaran prose, and evolved the elegantly stylized fashion ad. One day in 1937, while driving across New York's lofty Triborough Bridge, she conceived an annual issue celebrating the glories of America-steel and concrete as well as female. During World War II, Vogue sent off reporters to the battlefronts, later grimly printed atrocity pictures of Buchenwald. "Edna Chase wanted her readers to be able to pick up Vogue...
After her retirement, Edna Chase kept a grandmotherly eye on Vogue, often dropped into the office on Lexington Avenue for a quiet lunch and a worried chat about the fading numbers of ladies and gentlemen. Last month, a handsome and regal lady who was about to celebrate her 80th birthday, she slipped south to Florida for a vacation. There last week she died of a heart attack. The news reached Vogue as staffers were handing around the latest postcard from their editor emeritus: "I think of all you busy Vogueites," said the neat hand, "and envy you your full days...
...occasional writer of ballet music, Brooklyn-born Composer Ezra Laderman, 32, has long wanted to bring dance music and choreography closer together. He believes that the present methods of fitting dance to music or music to dance, or combining the two by a rough collaboration between composer and choreographer, often produce conflicting feeling between movement and melody. A year or so ago Laderman tried to solve the problem in his Duet for Flute and Dancer by writing the dancer's part into his score as though the dancer were another musical instrument...
Some firms, recognizing the danger of exposing their men to such temptations, kept them away from the convention altogether. Many sent engineers to the convention for only one day, hoping to keep them from shopping around. This often played right into the hands of the recruiters; the one-day man was obviously a man a company valued-and therefore a good man to steal...