Word: chaperons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Four professors and their wives will be on hand to chaperon the informal dance. These will include Neil H. Borden, professor of Advertising, Melvin T. Copeland, professor of Marketing and director of research in the Graduate School of Business Administration, Edmund P. Learned, professor of Marketing, and Malcolm P. McNair, professor of Marketing and Syndic of the Harvard University Press...
...problems like these bothered factory managers a year ago. But now, perhaps, a very shapely sweater girl wanders in to take her place in the swing shift. Low whistles follow her as she ambles down the aisle between machines. But a few minutes later a grey-haired factory chaperon catches her in the ladies' room. The chaperon is tactful (workers are hard to get). She admires the sweater girl's figure but says it would be a shame if because of her some man lost a hand under a punch press. Next night the girl comes back...
Yank will have an official chaperon in Lieut. Colonel Egbert White, former vice president of the big ad agency of Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, ex-staffman of Stars & Stripes...
...Chaperon of the 18 mannequins will be not regal Lady Willingdon but vivacious Mrs. Phoebe Tatton Brown, who was born in Argentina, has been released from a British Civil Service job. She explained that the gowns and hats her girls will wear are not for sale. South American women's-wear houses will be licensed to copy them, providing they agree to do so exclusively in British-made materials. One new British dress fabric the Empire mannequins will show is printed all over with ringing World War II phrases struck off by Prime Minister Winston Churchill...