Word: bazaar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There was still much ado about the nothing worn (above the waist, anyhow) by frail Model Christina Paolozzi, 22, in a full-page Richard Avedon photograph published by Harper's Bazaar in the January issue. The clothes-horsing magazine identified Manhattan-born Christina as a "Contessa" (she insists she is not), proudly admired "the classic spirit, abhorring the demure and falsely modest." But the photo was agitating the female press corps to its foundations. Tartly advised Syndicated Columnist Inez Robb: "The excursion into overexposure has unwittingly proved that not diamonds but clothes are a girl's best friend...
...reader of Vogue or Harper's Bazaar can testify, Mrs. Guinness should be better known. She has a lean figure, the profile of a latter-day Nefertiti, and hair like black velvet. At 47, Gloria Rubio von Furstenberg Guinness is a classic example of a woman who knows what money can do-and does it with grace. Her husband is related to the famed Guinness brewing clan and is a multimillionaire (banking, airplanes, etc.). They scorn café society's more redolent haunts; they are just rich people who maintain a bejeweled private life, do nothing deliberately...
Information on trade and industry in Lydian kingdom of Croesus, in the 7th and 6th centuries B.C., came from excavation of the Lydian bazaar in a great trench south of the modern highway. Heaps of ashes lying in a circle, moulds with bits of bronze, and actual bronze objects showed that large-scale bronze casting was carried...
Also uncovered in the Lydian Bazaar were three inscriptions from the 6th century B.C. incised on plain pots. Experts believe the language is Carian, that of a people who lived south of the Lydians and whom the Lydians employed as mercenaries...
Died. Carmel Snow, 73, petite, peppery editor in chief of Harper's Bazaar from 1932 to 1957, who helped spread the fame of Dior, Balenciaga and Chanel, won decorations from the French and Italian governments for popularizing their fashion industries; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...