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...slim, wide-mouthed young man named Paul Redfern took off from Brunswick, Ga. to fly to Brazil. Some 27 hours later Pilot Redfern's single-motored monoplane swooped down over the Norwegian freighter Christian Krohg 200 miles out of La Guaira, Venezuela. Getting his bearings, Redfern dashed on toward South America, where he was later reported over the Orinoco Delta. Then he vanished...
...young flyer had headed was so vast, unknown and impenetrable, search was from the beginning regarded as largely useless. Nonetheless, a few attempts were made, and all future scientific expeditions through the Guianas or Venezuela were asked to keep an eye open. After five years of silence even Pilot Redfern's wife and father believed him dead, had given up hope that any trace of him or his plane would ever be found...
Late in 1932 a rumor burgeoned from the jungle. A U. S. engineer named Charles Hasler reported at Para, Brazil that he had heard of a captive white man believed to be Redfern. By mid-1933 the air was thick with rumors from a dozen sources. A German-U. S. engineer named Tom Roch appeared out of the wilderness to announce he had talked to Redfern. Regardless of source, the stories were all remarkably alike in detail...
...even more important effect on styles in the U. S. Before 1914 only the wealthiest of U. S. matrons bought their gowns in Paris. To the women of the great middle class, Worth, Redfern, Poiret, Callot Soeurs were simply glamorous names. After 1918 the couturiers began for the first time to dress the whole Western world. Their designs, altered and adapted to suit cheaper grades of materials, began to flow out over all Europe and the U. S. Paris became the hub of world fashion. It still...
...little couturiers to whom buyers Hocked last week may be divided roughly and not without argument into three groups. First are the older houses who are heavy with prestige but exercise comparatively little authority over fashion trends. In this class are Worth, Paquin, Callot Soeurs and Redfern, who was the first couturier to receive the red ribbon of the Legion of Honor. Next is a large group of comparatively young houses or old ones which have passed their prime. Although they may startle the trade almost any year with a new trend, they are not at present the most dominant...