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Though the U.S. has yet to feel the full impact of the new silhouette, it was already provoking some violent opinions. The New York Daily News's inquiring reporter served up some samples. Herbert Bayard Swope thought the longer dresses neither revealing nor concealing-just dull. Onetime Cinemactress and Clothes Horse Gloria Swanson said: "They flatter those whose knees do not stand leg-revealing clothes." Look's Mrs. Gardner Cowles: "They make women look long, lean and restricted...
...week's end the Council still had a respectable list. It included: Christian Gauss, dean emeritus of Princeton; Mrs. Thomas W. Lament, wife of the board chairman of J. P. Morgan & Co., Inc.; Gerard Swope, honorary president of General Electric; the Most Rev. Henry St. George Tucker, presiding bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church...
...Vanishing Man. The friendly conference, in Baruch's Manhattan office, lasted three hours. On one side were Wallace and his adviser, alert Philip Hauser of the Census Bureau. On the other: Baruch and his associates, ex-Editorialist Herbert Bayard Swope, Banker John Hancock, Wall Streeter Ferd Eberstadt. Wai. lace, it developed, had based his criticism largely on the advice of a friend of his in UNRRA, who was now abroad. Baruch showed him, point by point, where he was wrong. The upshot of the conference: Hauser and Swope would draft a retraction for Wallace to sign...
Second Thought. On Monday Baruch got a telephone call. It was Wallace. In place of the letter which Hauser and Swope had drafted, he had written a statement which he read over the phone with the remark: "You won't like this." He was right. In it he said that he was glad to discover that "many points of the [Baruch] policies are identical with my proposals." But Baruch, the statement saidt overlooked the "major thesis of my letter to the President-the absence of an attitude of mutual trust and confidence between the United States and Russia." Baruch...
...Ferdinand Eberstadt, Herbert Bayard Swope, John Hancock, Fred Searles, Jr., Baruch...