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...from as far away as Genoa, Malta, Arab countries and India-hold an anachronistic loyalty to Britain. Two years ago, they voted 12,138 to 44 in favor of staying British, and posters still enjoin: KEEP GIBRALTAR TIDY-KEEP IT BRITISH. Gibraltar has virtual freeport status, and its tidy bazaar economy caters to an average 2,200 tourists a day. Britain has committed a million pounds sterling to building a water-distillation plant and housing for married servicemen...
...favorite authors -surely could have written her biography. Born into a middle-class family in Pound Ridge, N.Y., she had most of the right things: "artist parents," an education on scholarship at Rosemary Hall and Wellesley, a job as an editorial assistant to Diana Vreeland on Harper's Bazaar, even marriage to a good-looking Harvard grad. The marriage went nowhere for two years, then ended in a quiet divorce. "He was a nice guy," she says now. "We just had nothing in common. Nothing...
...meanwhile had managed the rightest kind of job as an assistant to Fashion Photographer Melvin Sokolsky. "He'd seen me at Bazaar," she recalls, "and offered me $100 a week, twice what I was making. I was married then, and needed the money. Before I left, Diana Vreeland warned me, 'You can't leave now. You don't know enough.' " But Ali learns quickly, and she soon made herself a permanent studio fixture. She did everything: made up the models, adjusted the lighting, hunted for an endless variety of photographer's props all over...
...recent months, for the first time in their history, Mademoiselle and Ladies' Home Journal have taken to using Negro as well as white models on their covers; black mannequins have appeared in almost every issue of Vogue and Bazaar for the past year. Of the 100-odd girls employed by the Ford model agency, New York's biggest and best known, a dozen now are black. Other formerly all-white agencies have similarly integrated their rosters, and in the past three months two new agencies have opened in Manhattan to handle black models...
...highest-paid fashion models in the world. Two years ago, Naomi was studying psychology on a scholarship at New York University. Now she is the girl in the A. T. & T. ads ("Fashions by Bill Blass, Telephone by A. T. & T.") and the "Body Magnetic" in Harper's Bazaar, clad only in a black body stocking...