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When John Fairchild headed Women's Wear Daily's Paris bureau, he was dubbed "Blouson Noir" ("Black Jack et," or "the tough one") by irritated fashion designers, who even crossed to the other side of the street when they saw him coming. As a trade-publication reporter, the supposedly genteel Fairchild had turned out to be an acerbic, outspoken critic of fashions. If Paris designers were relieved when he left in 1960 to become editor of Women's Wear, it was the New York fashion world's turn to be surprised. As New York Times Fashion...
...Fairchild prodded reporters to ferret out fashion news ahead of competitors; he needled designers and manufacturers into giving him exclusives, and he insisted on getting the material for fashion sketches earlier than anyone else. Women's Wear has come to pride itself on scoops, from revealing Jackie Kennedy's Paris buying sprees during the 1960 election campaign to printing the first sketch of Luci Johnson's wedding dress -an act that caused the paper's reporters to be banned from the wedding...
...Fairchild, now 40, has varied the once lackluster trade journal with sometimes effusive, sometimes cutting personality sketches of socially prominent people. The result has been a good deal of creative, if sometimes spurious, gossip. Fairchild has thus been a large factor in fusing the fashion world with the jet set. Women's Wear also runs pungent theater reviews by Martin Gottfried and hippie book reviews by Peter Prescott, whose father Orville reviews more squarely for the New York Times. Circulation has risen in the past six years by 30%, to 65,000. "Fairchild is responsible for reaching a totally...
Henry's trio aims to get out of the barely black and into the wider blue. The merged lines promise to pare expenses by cutting out competing ticket offices in some 25 cities and by ending route duplications. By building up their fleets, which now include Fairchild F-27 turboprops and Douglas DC-9 short-haul jets, they hope for rich runs to Hawaii and to Mexican resorts...
...even President Johnson's renewed call last week for a 6% surcharge on corporate and personal income taxes-which would further erode corporate profits-seemed to curb investors' appetite for industrial stocks. While some high-flying issues floundered-among them Xerox, Polaroid, Itek, Teledyne and Fairchild Camera-old favorites moved up nicely. General Motors gained $5.25, to $84.88, and Bethlehem Steel, Goodyear, Standard Oil of California, Chrysler, and General Electric also gained substantially. American Telephone & Telegraph rose 88? a share to $53 after the company announced that it will fight a Federal Communications Commission finding that...