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...boutiques in the basement of the Tokyo Prince Hotel hired a hand last week whose references needed no checking. Mrs. Takako Shimazu, 31, the new "salon adviser," traces her lineage to no less a luminary than a sun; her father is Japan's Emperor Hirohito. The pretty ex-princess (who lost her title when she married a commoner) is not exactly a newcomer to the rat race. Ten years ago, she turned a fast yen as star of a deejay show on Tokyo radio called-not surprisingly-Princess Time...
...that when Anna paid her first official call, this uninvited "companion" sat, silent but attentive, through the visit. When the Western diplomat's wife repaid the call at the Czechoslovak embassy, she discovered the Soviet ambassador's wife sitting in a room within earshot of the main salon...
...time, though, rock has become more personal, curious and deep, largely through the work of a new breed of solo troubadours who write their own stuff and occasionally deliver it in person. The handy and somewhat disparaging label for this new style of defused, intimate and literate pop is "salon rock." No one in the business, however, puts down the genuine talents of two of its finest practitioners: Composer-Singers Harry Nilsson, 29, and Randy Newman...
...boots are flopping and one's trousers are dropping-but bootlaces and braces are not all that difficult to replace. The only resolution, it would seem, will come when Britain produces a still newer youth fad. In the meantime, Vidal Sassoon's Mayfair salon has capitalized on the current one by offering skinhead hairdos to London's trendiest ladies...
Sewing Their Own. Denver's Bride-N-Groom Rental Salon is swamped with orders from women who do not want to spend $200 for a wedding gown. Sales at Chesebrough-Pond's, a producer of moderately priced facial creams and toiletries, increased by 13% in the first three months of 1970. Many women are putting off buying new summer wardrobes and instead are making clothes for themselves. Volume is ahead 80% at Discount Fabrics Inc., a chain in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska. Just as women are sewing their own clothes, they are also growing their own food...