Word: stylist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Velvet Fog. Delicate Mel Tormé, known to his claque of feminine fans as the "Velvet Fog," is the boy with the butterscotch voice. At 21, Stylist Tormé attributes his intimate whispers to a second growth of tonsils and a solid knowledge of music (rare, in a crooner...
...brighter side of the picture, Kenny Chun, Chinese stylist who plays at the left inside slot, has rejoined the squad after a week's absence. The team should profit during the rest of the season by the much improved play of Hugh Morse, who has shaped up as one of the best forwards on the Varsity...
...industry has one great advantage: it can display its wares in the world's best showcase-Hollywood-and it cashes in notably through Adrian (he eschews his first name: Gilbert), who last year was named No. 1 U.S. stylist by New York fashion critics. In his Ionic-columned salon in Beverly Hills, Adrian turns out $2 million worth of clothes a year. Yet he and the few other top-ranking stylists (e.g. Howard Greer, Orry-Kelly), gross only 5% of the industry's total...
...Hedy Lamarr suffered the unkindest cluck of all, from a corner of the foundation-garment industry. A sharp-eyed stylist rose to report: her waist is too thick. Also, said this foundation-garment expert: Ingrid Bergman tends toward hippiness, and Katharine Hepburn hasn't enough of what Carole Landis has too much...
...stylist, Miss Howe is guilty of one of the things which she parodies so effectively: the constant use of literary allusion in conversation. The entire book is larded with supposedly apt quotations, most of them uprooted from English literature and sown broadcast through every chapter. When Dorothea's son wishes to enlist in the Navy, Miss Howe's comment as novelist is "No man is an island," a reference which since the publication of "For Whom the Bell Tolls" has been fighting it out with "This above all" as the most overworked phrase in all literature...