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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Also announcing style trends last week was Amos Parrish, unique style forecaster for U. S. and Canadian retail buyers and merchandisers. To his seventh Fashion Merchandising Clinic in Manhattan's Hotel Pierre went 100 store buyers, advertising and sales managers. "More lady-like than ever-and certainly gay," said Amos Parrish last week. "Women will look taller this fall. . . . And of course they will not be wearing their hats on the backs of their heads. Fashion is now tilting her hat forward over the right eye." Alert, keen, Forecaster Parrish senses style trends like a hound after a badger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Empress Eugenie Again | 8/3/1931 | See Source »

When the halfway mark of the seventh annual National Air Tour was reached at New Orleans last week, only nine planes remained of the 15 which had started to compete for the Edsel B. Ford Reliability Trophy. Of the six flyers who cracked up or were forced down in Kentucky, Ohio and Tennessee, one was fatally hurt. He was Pilot Charles Sugg whose Buhl Bull Pup was first to get away from Detroit at the start of the 6,000-mi. flight but who crashed into a hillside at Yorkville, Ohio. Lieut. Harry L. Russell, winner of the trophy last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: For Reliability | 7/20/1931 | See Source »

Captain Lenin, Captain Trotsky and today Captain Stalin have never been afraid to alter Russia's course?the course of over one-seventh of the world?by a sudden titan's tug at the helm. Last week Captain Stalin tugged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Stalin Shifts the Helm | 7/13/1931 | See Source »

Home in Manhattan from their Nairobi plantation with another series of animal films arrived Mr. & Mrs. Martin Johnson, naturalists de luxe. Their live importations: one cheetah, two monkeys, two chimpanzees, three gorillas (the seventh, eighth and ninth now resident in the U. S.), two red-fezzed Uganda boys, Manuel and Diosaner, who scoop up their gravy in their hands, are startled by ice cream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Less & Less Gunning | 7/13/1931 | See Source »

...kept it smooth across the finish, which he crossed to the absurdly disconsolate hooting of a destroyer's fog horn. Cornell was only a length behind, Washington third, the rest of the shells strung out up the river?California, Syracuse, Penn. Columbia, inexplicably ragged and ineffectual, finished seventh, just ahead of Wisconsin. M. I. T. was last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Rowing | 6/29/1931 | See Source »

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