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...fall, buyers turned to the "relaxed look," a slimmer, trimmer, tighter version of the chemise. One fast comer is the empire style-a bust-emphasizing high waist with a flaring skirt. Fall dresses will be two or three inches shorter than last fall's models, and colors will be gayer and splashier...
...Weary of beauty-queen contests, Jämsä strapped on a corset, fluffed up his flowing, brown hair, and entered himself in the annual Maid of the North contest in Rovaniemi, capital of Finnish Lapland. "I didn't drink then, was much slimmer, and managed to turn out really quite a beautiful face," recalls Jämsä. Well padded, he looked fine in the required Finnish national costume and evening dress, got through an interview with the judges by pleading hoarseness and hiding his hands under net gloves. The judges gave him third prize...
...other top designers as Guy Laroche, Jean Dessės and Lanvin-Castillo, who showed their wares last week, Saint-Laurent has gone to work on the billowy, knee-hobbling chemise-sack dress, the first big change in female fashions since the New Look in 1947. Some made it slimmer, some wider, most flared the hemline and shortened it until it barely covers the knees. Fashion writers hailed Saint-Laurent for bringing a new feminine dimension to the sack...
...recently to meet payrolls, that its moviemaking operations are losing $1,000,000 a month, and that Loew's may be forced to pass its usual 25? cash dividend this quarter. Said Millionaire Tomlinson, who sees his $5,000,000 investment in Loew's growing slimmer and slimmer: "I may have made mistakes. But my biggest mistake was to buy into this company...
Hatless in the mild Washington night, the chunky man stood in the shadows outside the Dupont Plaza Hotel and reached fast for the onionskin paper held out by his taller, slimmer companion. The little man tucked the paper in his inside coat pocket, shook hands and turned back to the hotel. Smiling to himself, he padded across the thick rug in the lobby and started into an elevator. Then the smile vanished-and squat (5 ft. 5 in., 170 lbs.) James Riddle Hoffa, 44, one of the most powerful leaders of U.S. labor, stood frozen-faced while agents...