Word: sketcher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...well-fed Iowa boy who first came east to make his fortune. Tweedy, balding, good-humored, unhurried, he talks earnestly in a deep, Midwestern voice, addresses everyone indiscriminately as "my friend." A hard worker, he hates detail, refuses to read memos and rarely answers letters. He is a tablecloth sketcher. He is so absent minded that before he leaves for an appointment his secretary gives him a neat card telling him where & when to go and how to get there...
Sophie designs with the help of a sketcher and tall, bald Stewart Erlkin, who is a good enough designer to do Sophie's sophisticated models with little help from her. She also buys sketches from outsiders, changing them to suit her taste. And, like all other designers, she constantly combs over the styles of the last 5,000 years. One of her most fertile hunting grounds is the Brooklyn Museum, which she likes because it lets her take costumes back to her shop for copying. This year it supplied the inspiration for a woman's suit jacket copied...
...tractive brunette wife, seven-month-old son and two dogs, he lives in an elaborately furnished studio in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, spends his summers at Rockport, Mass., where he helps run an art school between laborious sessions at his easel. Though he is an inveterate pencil sketcher and a hawk-eyed observer of nature, he uses few models, does all his serious painting at night...
...White House musicales," Mrs. Roosevelt is partial to Americans, likes programs that interlard well-known artists with entertainers like Whistler Robert MacGimsey, Character Sketcher Mollie A. Best, Singing Satirist Vandy Cape. Encores are given only if Mrs. Roosevelt signals. Artists are asked not to brag much in the press about their White House dates...