Tuesday, November 30, 2010

DECEMBER 1950

HARPER'S BAZAAR DECEMBER 1950
TED CASTLE


DOVIMA
A CHRISTMAS BALL DRESS BY DIOR
EKTACHROME BY RICHARD AVEDON



ANIMAL MAGNETISM

CROWN SABLE CAPE - MAXIMILIAN
THE SKINS OF SOMALI LEOPARDS - BERNHAM-STEIN

RICHARD AVEDON


LORD CARNEGIE COMES OF AGE

THE EARL OF SOUTHESK AND SON, LORD CARNEGIE
KINAIRD CASTLE
TONI FRISSELL


FUR AND FINE FEATHERS
JEAN SIMMONS


  MAINBOCHER 



1950
The Credit Card is introduced.   In 1949, Frank X. McNamara thought of a way for customers to have just one credit card that they could use at multiple stores. McNamara discussed the idea with two colleagues and the three pooled some money and started a new company in 1950 which they called the Diners Club.

The first Diners Club credit cards were given out in 1950 to 200 people  and accepted by 14 restaurants in New York. The concept of the card grew and by the end of 1950, 20,000 people were using the Diners Club credit card. The Diners Club credit card is considered the first modern credit card.

Tibet's Dalai Lama flees Chinese invasion

James Dean begins his career with an appearance in a Pepsi commercial

Dick Tracy marries Tess Truehart

Academy Award for Best Original Song - “Mona Lisa” the theme song to the drama “Captain Carey, U.S.A.” sung by Nat King Cole


MONA LISA - NAT KING COLE  (open in new tab)




       




                                              






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FROM THE ARCHIVE
devodotcom posts on Dovima

Avedon and Dovima in Paris          1.6.12
Spot the Difference                 1.6.12
In Praise of Ernst Beadle           9.8.11
Dovima – Mid-Century Supremodel     7.3.11
December 1950                     11.30.10
Dovima With Elephants, Evening…   11.25.10



                                       

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