Dior Fall Winter Line Highlights Peasant Skirts and Long Jackets
Paris Dior designer Marc Bohan unveiled a fall and winter collection featuring peasant style blouses and extra full skirts with belted bust emphasis. The parade included squared jackets, hunting outfits with straight skirts, and sheath tube dresses with railan sleeves, plus full coats and fur bordered narrow coats.
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Bohan Adopts Bright Blue Daytime Sportswear
New York fashion notes reveal Bohan shifting from tweeds to flat fabrics with a new bright blue color for daytime wear. The piece also offers beauty tips on avoiding hair spray in the eyes and advises immediate rinsing with water if spray contacts the eyes.
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New York
Death and Debts Paid by Credit Life Insurance
A record 193 million dollars in debts of Americans who died with outstanding loans were paid by credit life insurance companies last year. This was 25 million dollars more than in 1962, according to the Institute of Life Insurance.
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New York
Credit Life Insurance Companies
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Institute of Life Insurance Reports
Central American Common Market Eyes Investment Prospects
New York wire reports the CACM nations Costa Rica El Salvador Guatemala Honduras and Nicaragua rise as a growing economic bloc. The FNCB review notes sugar coffee bananas and cotton growth with coffee ranking high, cotton exports expanding, and foreign investors increasingly targeting this unified Central American economy.
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Japan
Blondes Preferred Yet Many Wish For Lighter Hue
An analysis of over 5,000 women at the Clairol exhibit at the New York World’s Fair shows most respondents have dark hair but prefer lighter shades. The study finds the average woman is a brunette, yet would rather be blonde with no single shade favored.
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New York
Tray Lamp Gains Ground in Small Rooms
A tray lamp becomes popular as a space saving lighting option for rooms where a full table or floor lamp would take too much space. Described as a compact unit with a base and a tray at chairside height, typically four feet high with an upright shaft.
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New York
Peter Pen Play Set For Shawnee Summer Theatre
Children's Theatre in Greene County near Bloomfield presents Peter Pan with four matinees next week at 20 p m. The show features Children’s Theatre students apprentices and acting company members. Donna Beth Held directs and stars as Peter with Robert Pataconi Rehner making a second season dance appearance and designing some scenery.
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Mary Martin
Donna Beth Held
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H. Adrian Rehner
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al Terry
Costumes From Texas Arrive For Greene County Show
The theatre prepares for a popular local play with 225 seats, 25 reserved on a first come basis. Costumes from Texas are complete and ready for the performance. All seats cost fifty cents and are open to the public with Greene county residents expected to attend.
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Texas
Greene County
The Days When Catalogs Shaped American Style
A short look at how Sears Roebuck catalogs reflected changing tastes. Silk stockings appear in 1912 with caution to buyers and men’s pajamas surface in 1999 before fading, then return to stay after 1408.
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New York
Sear, Roebuck
Sinatra edits film None But the Brave in debut
Frank Sinatra completes star and director roles for None But the Brave and begins first editing attempt.
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Hollywood
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