Word: stylist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Barker (29), the first Maugham Award winner, is no experimental stylist. And even "elderly" Evelyn Waugh (44) might have had a hard time getting the prize away from a book of short stories as original and good as her Innocents...
Pole-vaulter Bud Lockett and weight stylist Sam Felton rolled the big seven, although for the second time in a week, large Sam had to play second fiddle in his specialty, the 35-pound weight throw. Nine days ago, Bob Bennett beat him out for the National AAU title...
...Richmond, Old School Stylist James Branch Cabell, who knows a lot of words, broke his accustomed silence to inform his publishers that he was writing a new book. "I do not think that to announce the book as 'in preparation,' " wrote Cabell, bringing memories of the oldtime Cabellian vocabulary thronging, "should be regarded as hubris...
...Army discharged him because of his frail stomach, Mel began a well-publicized zoom. After starring in a movie (Good News), he pirouetted right into his own NBC show, Tormé Time (Sat. 5:30 p.m.). Says Mel, somewhat mysteriously: "My face is not prolific. I'm a stylist. . . I've got a distinctive sound." Despite his unprolific face, Tormé will probably make about $250,000 next year...
Adam Gimbel, a chronic bachelor whom she had met socially some years previously, hired her after a look at some of her theatrical designs-as a "stylist" at Saks. (Stylists were experts in good taste who counseled buyers on what was "chic.") One of her jobs was to go to Paris and buy French models to bring back for Saks to copy. In 1929, he asked her to take over the then slipping Salon Moderne...