Word: bazaar
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...decided that it was time to reminisce. In Quant by Quant, a precocious autobiography, she gaily details the way she broke into hot couture with her husband and business manager, Alexander Plunket Greene. "We were mad; the whole thing was hysterical," writes Mary, recalling the opening of their famous Bazaar shop in Chelsea. "The trade ignored us, they laughed at us openly." But she gives high fashion the needle right back. Mary observes happily: "Quite a number of the women who are awarded the annual title of 'best dressed women' are square...
...What's beginning to happen in our houses," says ex-Model China Machado, now an editor on Harper's Bazaar, "is that we are developing a Designer's Look." Each designer strives to create an individual personality that comes across in all his clothes; and they range from, say, the kooky inventiveness of Rudi Gernreich to the effortless poise of Ferdinando Sarmi. As to the best U.S. designers, each fashion expert has his preference, but two are universally ranked...
...resent the outstretched palms of European bellhops and waiters who have already received the compulsory tip added to hotel and restaurant tabs, foreigners in the U.S. cannot easily get the hang of the American freelance system. Another shock comes when a visitor tries, as he sometimes does, to haggle bazaar-style in Saks Fifth Avenue...
...Knights (U.S. membership: 1,184,000) and the Masons (U.S. membership: 4,500,000) jointly sponsor some local charity drive; almost every night, two groups get to gether for bowling matches or common meetings. In Madison, Wis., for example, the Knights and the Shriners co-sponsored a charity bazaar. In Tacoma, Wash., Columbians and Shriners gathered for what one ecumenical enthusiast called "a real bash." And in Hartford, Conn., the Knights have joined with the Masons and B'nai B'rith to form a brotherhood committee rep resenting a combined membership of 100,000. Says Supreme Knight John...
...mother. She attended New York public schools, a Tarrytown, N.Y., boarding school called Highland Manor, and graduated from New York City's Julia Richman High School. She began modeling when she was twelve, "to make a little dough," and had graced the cover of Harper's Bazaar by the time she went to Hollywood at 18. In her very first film, To Have and Have Not (1945), she added a classic come-on line to U.S. cinema legend, and anyone who heard her utter it the first time around fully qualifies as middleaged: "If you want anything, just...