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...Those show-offs who wear dresses up to their bottoms know nothing about fashion," fumes Jo Hughes, the super-saleslady at Manhattan's Bergdorf Goodman who has made a career out of helping stylish women stay in style. Snaps West Coast Designer James Galanos: "All they've done is chop five inches off the hem and they call it new. To me it's a laugh." It is no laugh to Norman Norell, 67, dean of American designers. "Elegance is out," sighs the master of elegance. "It's a fascinating, frustrating time to be a designer...
...sentiments were catnip both to the readers of Harper's Bazaar and to the judges of the first annual Magazine Awards given jointly by the J. C. Penney Co. and the University of Missouri. The panel awarded a $1,000 prize in the fashion and beauty category to stylish Stout-Heiress Gloria Guinness, 53, for her article in the June 1966 Bazaar deploring the "short, short, short skirt" as "that crazy young look that took over with the rapidity of a plague." La Guinness, a best-dressed, quarterly contributor to the magazine, gave the $1,000 back...
...parceling them out with a parsimony that makes every jot count. Her sound, never big or brassy, is growing thin at the top and breathy at the bottom. So she spends her notes in the same way that dispossessed nobility lives on a dwindling income: with frugal selectivity but stylish aplomb. As she puts on weight, it becomes a little easier-but only a little-to believe that she is 47 and a grandmother. So she tones her act down to a quieter hush, focuses her emotions in an even narrower hypnotic beam, and makes the lifting of an eyebrow...
...severely into their ad revenues. Yet the London Times, once considered the most vulnerable of them all, has snapped out of the crisis in a way that has startled Fleet Street. Under its new owner, Lord Thomson, the stodgy "Grey Lady of Printing House Square" has turned into a stylish swinger. In the seven months since the Thomson team took over, her circulation has jumped to 350,000-a 30% increase. "The British have lost an institution," says Columnist Peter Jenkins of the rival Guardian, "but gained a newspaper...
Married. Richard Kollmar, 55, onetime Broadway producer (Plain and Fancy), longtime radio chit-chat man (from 1945 to 1963, with his late wife Dorothy Kilgallen on Breakfast With Dorothy and Dick), now proprietor of Manhattan's Pastiche Gallery; and Mrs. Anne Fogarty, 48, designer of stylish medium-priced frocks; both for the second time, in a civil ceremony (the bride wore a Fogarty) in Manhattan...