Word: woman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doughty little woman with tinted grey-blue hair has finally destroyed a venerable Italian institution: the state-supervised brothel. Angelina Merlin, 68, is Italy's only woman Senator. For ten years she has been nagging Italy's legislators to do the right thing. Last week the Chamber of Deputies ran out of delaying tactics, and by a vote of 385 to 115 ordered that all houses of prostitution (which have been paying a 3% tax on income to the state) be closed within six months, and that their 4,000 girls serving 30,000 clients daily...
With svelte elegance. Paris fashion designers last week beckoned in the press to see the haute couture creations that this year will tell the American woman how to look like a lampshade (see BUSINESS). Day after day, model after model slinked before scribbling newshens, who busily sighted the bearings of each belt, buckle and bow. After one tense model marathon, the New York Herald Tribune's capable Eugenia Sheppard (TIME, Aug. 12) confessed: "I was a wreck by the end of the show, and to tell the truth, my notes are a mess...
...most influential fashion reporter in Paris: lanky, dimpled Princetonian John Fairchild. 30. European director of his family's Fairchild Publications, Inc. Fairchild had scored a beat on the openings by predicting fortnight ago in his company's fashion-conscious Women's Wear Daily that "the 1958 woman will wear shorter skirts than last season . . . The chemise [sack] is here to stay, but with new slim or wider versions...
Because of such dogged reporting and special services, Women's Wear Daily (10? an issue, $12 a year; circ. 47,215) has long been required reading for those who design, make or sell clothes for the American woman. Macy's alone takes 112 subscriptions. So influential is Women's Wear that a four-line story on a back page about a dress that is selling well will bring dozens of inquiring phone calls from retailers around the country. Women's Wear does its level best to wield its power impersonally, never disparages any style, and like...
...Charts. The convalescent volunteers found their job complicated when, that same day, another woman of 63 was put in the bed next to Giuseppina's with the same diagnosis and temperature. It looked, too, as though Anna Bianca Battachi was to get just the same medicines. To make sure, the volunteers took down both charts from the patients' beds, compared them minutely. Then they put one card back at the head of each...