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Their stronghold was Texas and their Joan of Arc was a Dallas housewife named Mrs. Bobbie Woodward. Mrs. Woodward, 24, and mother of two, was no Ingrid Bergman. But she had a nice pair of legs and a stubborn spirit. She saw no reason why she should hide her legs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Resistance | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

Down the steep cobbled streets of La Paz, coca-chewing Indians trotted under huge packs of bundled alpaca hides. In the market sun, Indian women in outlandish derby hats and bright-colored skirts haggled over little piles of shelled corn. It was winter, the good time in the Andes. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOLIVIA: The Same Scissors | 8/25/1947 | See Source »

In the time it takes to adjust a girdle, the nation's advertising writers last week joined the fashion revolution begun by couturiers and fashion magazines (TIME, Aug. 18). A year ago Manhattan's Lord & Taylor had lyrically praised suits with "new bulky tops" and short-skirted hip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Remember? | 8/25/1947 | See Source »

Last week, after prophesying the most drastic style changes in a decade, the fashion magazines swept on to the crucial task of their year: rushing the news, sketches and pictures from the Paris and New York openings into print for their big fall numbers. Queenly Edna Woolman Chase, 70-year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Stylocrats | 8/18/1947 | See Source »

Stepping across the Yard, Vag took a short fix on the Mem Hall clock and suddenly ducked aside, just in time to miss a Radcliffe troop coming the other way. Such happy looks on their faces, he mused--and then almost dropped his pipe. Of course, he thought with a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 5/6/1947 | See Source »

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