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...Vatican bobbled the dialectic ball again. That the staid St. Bernardino of Siena should be the patron saint of advertisers [Feb. 4] and bandied about by the mass-media Babbitts is unforgivable. Our blatant and vulgar advertising is the one crack in our picture window that anti-Americans point to as our literary output. Madison Avenue's grey flannel mouthings could never wear Bernardino's hair shirt...
Each dress is reviewed by the patron himself, sitting in a straight chair, clad in a long white butcher's smock. With a long, gold-tipped cane, Dior points and criticizes, orders a bow changed, a seam moved. Scattered through the collection are the five or six models which are called, because they may prove to be disasters, the "Trafalgars"-the dresses which are the most extreme and will make headlines or covers in the fashion magazines. Dior deliberately plans them to startle and shock, thinks of them as trial straws in the wind, to be developed...
...Kaiser Friedrich Museum Director Hermann Voss. Since then, scholars have winnowed through works variously attributed to such Spanish masters as Zurbaran, Velasquez, Ribera and Murillo, have now identified more than 25 of them as La Tours. His matching portraits, Peasant Man and Peasant Woman were presented by Art Patron Roscoe Oakes to San Francisco's De Young Museum, where they will be unveiled this week. Major works in La Tour's early style, they are tentatively dated 1620, when La Tour would have been only 27. St. Louis' City Art Museum's Young Man with Pipe...
Advertising men with Trendex troubles, placement problems or sagging sales now have somebody up there who likes them; the Vatican last week named St. Bernardino of Siena as patron saint of advertisers...
...geisha's true function has not. In essence, it is to be all that a wife should be if she didn't have to wash the dishes, bear the babies, clean the house and grow old and tiresome. To casual guests at a party or to the patron she hopes will one day claim her permanently, the geisha must be tireless and fascinating, solicitous and flattering, soothing and delightful, ready to make conversation, play a game or listen to pompous discourse at the whim of her customer. "A good geisha," said a member of Kyoto's geisha...