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...showing off the snapshots they sometimes leave with her. "Now this," she will remark, "was a very nice family from Ohio . . . This poor girl lost her kitty just before she came .. . This was a woman all the way from Australia. She brought me a kangaroo skin and a hula skirt...
...Exposures. By next morning the story was on front pages all over the country. The New York Times wrapped it up in nine lively columns, including an eyewitness account by its Johnny-on-the-spot photographer, Fred Sass-but not including any of his pictures. An editor explained: "Her skirt was way up over her legs, and the Times doesn't print pictures like that." Everybody else...
...Back. Smart management has enabled Lee Skirt to take up rising costs and then some. Despite an addition of three inches to the length of most skirts and a 5?-a-yard rise in flannel, it is currently selling one all-wool flannel item at 15% less than last year...
...happy result: a pat on the back from the National Retail Dry Goods Association. Though "it is not our normal function to advertise any manufacturer," said a N.R.D.G.A. bulletin, Lee Skirt is providing "a reliable garment at a price which should . . . help overcome the public dissatisfaction over the price situation." A happier result: the company expects to gross more than $1,000,000 in 1948, a 100% increase in a year...
...Rogers was a World War I doughboy on furlough when he bumped into Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas in a French provincial hotel. Miss Toklas ("Pussy," Miss Stein called her) was wearing "a sort of uniform," consisting of a cloak and a skirt with vast baggy pockets; she moved at a springy canter. Miss Stein ("Lovey," Miss Toklas called her) also wore a sort of uniform, modeled apparently on the Greek Evzones but including sandals; she walked like a determined elephant. Both ladies wore hats like helmets. They named young Rogers "Kiddy...