Word: silks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...countess, did not accept the offer. But after her husband died, she remembered it. Last week, in its small (25 ft. by 35 ft.) but plushy quarters on Manhattan's Park Avenue, Countess Mara, Inc. celebrated its eighth and most opulent anniversary. Since its first birthday, sales (of silk ties only, at $6.50 to $15 each) have increased over 1,400%; they netted $40,155 last year...
...shop is the same in which she started by having silk printed to her own design, hiring girls to turn it into ties. She believed that men liked 1) bright ties as the only sartorial way of expressing themselves and 2) ties that told a story...
...well. One night last week the tabloids gave him his first big headlines in more than a decade-he had suffered a cerebral thrombosis. Thirty-four hours later, Death, as it must to all men, came to James John Walker, ex-mayor of New York, the dapper, silk-hatted symbol of the Fabulous Twenties...
Climax of the evening was the rhythmic waving of white silk handkerchiefs by all concerned while singing the last few lines for the Bulldog Alma Mater...
...Duke of Windsor and his Duchess arrived safely in Manhattan-the Duke in a blue suit (and cotton sweater and plaid shirt), the Duchess in what she helpfully described to some 50 welcoming reporters and cameramen as "a blue wool suit with a red wool jersey, a striped silk hat-I guess that's what you call it-with a veil, and a black box calf and alligator handbag." Also a mink stole. But no jewels. (Explained the Duke, whose Duchess got stolen blind back in Britain: "Well, really, there wouldn't be many left to bring...