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Telegraph Colorado Springs, Colo. Sunday, 6, 1974 Cassini Carouse Jacqueline Susann Didn't Want Sad Songs By IGOB CASSINI and LIZ SMITH betwp en you and us AND THE LAMP POST: sing any sad songs for the late Jacqueline Susann. Here was a gallant, courageous, gutsy woman who lived the end of her life as if it was to be a story later put into a book. It is entirely heroic to keep a secret for years in order to work effectively and not let the world pity you. what Jackie did.

After she learned she had breast cancer fourteen years ago. Jackie took whatever medical steps she could. But she swore her husband Irving Mansfield to secrecy and set out to do the most effective work of her life. At her funeral, it was said that Jackie made a pact with God-she asked for time to become a writer, the top writer at that. This was even before she had written her famous book 0 Tonight, e- about her poodle.

Jackie went on to make good, she wrote of the Dolls," Love and Is Not She revolutionized the pub- 1 i i business, learning every facet about distribution and printing and promotion. With the help of her brains- SALLE HILL SLOTHOWER torming stand by Irving, the Mansfields proceeded to make history. As it has been said she had many imitators but nobody quite did it the way Jackie did. (Like Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley, she was an original.) This column asked several times about health when in recent years she began to repeatedly be ill with and The little white lies Jackie and Irving told us were completely understandable. Jackie wanted to go out in a blaze of glory, at the top of her form, not with everybody going tch, poor Jackie-poor So we admire the gallant effort the Mansfields made to keep it all together until the end.

There i-- a famous photo Diane Arbus took of Jackie and Irving clasped in one arms in the Beverly Hills Hotel. Their long and successful and happy marriage is a rebuke to those who felt the picture was Jackie and Irving were for real. They achieved the difficult-a partnership so complete that even now it is almost impossible to think of them as separated. Salle Slothower Plans to Marry Stephen Meyers Mr. and Mrs.

Louis Ciea- land Slothower, Spring Grove Terrace, announce the engagement of their daughter, Salle Hill, to Stephen Frederic Meyers, son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Meyers, 123 Tyler Place. Miss Slothower attended Cheyenne Mountain High School, Stephens College, Missouri, and the Colorado College. She is employed as a respiratory therapist by Penrose Hospital.

Meyers attended Wasson High School and is a student at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. The couple will wed Nov, 23 at Chapel of Our Saviours. Jacqueline Susann left us her last achievement the final years of a life used up with verve and glamour and energy and a demonic will to succeed and live that should give the world heart. Avc Jackie! Wc who are also about to die (at sometime) salute you! be hearing a lot about Random newest hot number, a novel based on the true life of Jill Schary Robinson and written by the super talented daughter of Dore Schary, onetime MG.M movie mogul. In Time Jill tells us what happens when a brilliant speed freak divorcee and mother of tw'o marries an alcoholic handsome charmer.

This is a love story for the twentieth century, all right- touching, vulnerable, bright and witty. It breaks your heart. Somebody told us Hr. and Mrs. Schary are so alarmed at the publication of this all- to-valid story that they are thinking of going to Flurope until the publicity blows over.

We think thev be getting the band rcadv and leading the parade for the fa- 1 0 ilent they helped bring to the literary world. Bravas to Jill Schary Robinson, one of the newest, tender- and truest of the flock of women novelists. Steve Lawrence claims he hasn't yet reported wife Gorme's American Express card was stolen whoever took it is spending less than Is British Prime Minister Wilson sure of something wc don't know, like the fall elections, He just ordered his three official cars outfitted with new ashtrays big enough to hold his pipe. F'ive movie companies want the rights to Hal smash Broadway revival of Basque separationists insist that Patty Hearst is living with members of their movement in Spain. When famed Filipino painter Aguilar-Alcuaz makes his American debut in an exhibition of his tapestries, oils, and watcrcolors at New Runyon-Winchell Gallery on Oct.

10. who could ask for a more distinguished patronage than Angier Biddle Duke. Helen Hayes, Ed Sullivan and the top ambas.sadoria! corps from Spain and the Philippines. AND MRS. HOWARD C.

SMITH Couple SOfh qaormniumg See Our Display Ad In The Classified Section Under "Condoniniums" Mr. and Mrs. Howard C. Smith will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary Sunday, Oct. 13, with an open house for friends and neighbors from 2 to 4 o.m.

at their home. 2010 N. El Paso Blvd. Corduroy Look Big as In Fall Wear Corduroy is still a perennial fall favorite in skirts, slightly flared pants and all- weather trenchcoats. Loose jackets of printed cotton corduroy come with big patch pockets and rolled back, cuffed sleeves worn over long sleeved solid color sweaters.

Hosting the reception will the children, Smith of Wichita. i nd Mr. and Mr.s. Snuth of Salida. Tiie Smiths were married 1.5, 1924, in Enid, Okla.

Tht ouple also has three grandchildren. Catalog Fashion Photographs Require Hard Look at Details MARIANA A DESOTO Mariana deSoto, H. Miller II Plan to Marry Soledad de Soto Vda. de of Puebla. Puebla, Mexico, announces the engagement of her daughter dc- Solo.

to Hilliard Eve Miller HI, of Mr. and Mrs. Hilliard Eve of Colorado Springs. de Sota i.s a graduate of Colegio Ontral and la Universidad Atonoma de Puebla. Puebla, Mexico.

is a graduate of the Air Academy High School and la Universidad de las Americas. Puebla. Wedding vows will be exchanged Dec. 7 at the Chapel of Our Saviours in Colorado Springs. For Want Ads Dial--t71-2470.

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NO SLIPP.AGE To prevent a rocking chair from slipping across the floor while rocking, glue the wrong side of strips of velvet to the underside of the rockers. Bv SKINNER Gazette Telegraph Lifestyle Editor WorLu.ig days for Virginia Sorcm of New York arc one long iashion spree after another. But it's not all fun. If she makes a mistake it could cost her company thousands of dollars in sales, Mrs Sorem, in Colorado Spnng.s to discuss next fashion trends with media representative, offered an insight into the problems of her job as J.C. Penny catalog fashion co-ordinator.

The photographs of a total Iashion look '-'oen in the catalog arc her work. Her job begins when the bincrs tor the catalog division have made their selections for the next season. Samples are delivered to her office where she puts the scarf from one buyer, jewelry from a second buyer with the dress another has purchased together for photography purposes. Sounds easy until you consider the thousands of items passing through her in a single year. In addition to selecting the costume.

Sorem also gives detailed instructions to the catalog photographer to leave the neckline of this blouse unbuttoned, add this piece of jewelry to that sweater, rop the picture at the liiplinc, and dozens of other detail tips. Already considered in the selection is how well the item will photograph. Will the colors photograph true? Can catalog customer see small details? If details ouow the return rate of merchandise goes up considerably. photography is a highly specialized biusincss. make a minimum number of garment alterations so ojr nvidds have to conform to a certain get letters all the tinu' from people who say thc'y are available for models.

We use anyone but In her spare time Mrs. Sorem interviews models. I find 1 in 50 had a fine she explains. In selecting catalog models at height. Requirements are from 5 feet fi inches to 5 feet 9 inches.

Hips must measure 35 inches and waistline 22. Small bustlincs are essential. The shoulders should be 16M inches across everything fails from the shoulders and anything wider puts the garment out of The girl must measure from to 17 inches from shoulder to front waistline. all these mea- check out then I look at her face. Flxtremes are out.

Pretty, wholesome all-American girls are what Working a season in advance has its problems for the staff. (The spring-summer catalog was finished in August.) To compensate for the time factor, Mrs. Sorcm as well as the buyers must talk customers. with hundreds of authorities in the fashion field as well as are not She explains. want to give the customer a look she sit on your hands! knows exists at a price she can atford.

matters to all of us. is no question the economy has had an impact on fashions. Shoes for instance. More people are ing so we see more shoes designed for walking. There has also been a big increase in sales of at-home garments for The cost of leather is posing problems.

Once an item is photographed and the cost stated in the catalog, price cannot change. Several suppliers of leather goods have incrca.scd the cost of their product to the catalog division. There arc other hazariis involved in catalog sales. it sells too well it can be a disaster. The supply runs out.

If it it's also a disaster." Airs. Sorcm laughs. almost always an overstock. Sometimes we can carry over the item to the next or get it in a sales issue. Treasury Stores offer outlets for merchandise that has not been moved through sales.

Mrs. Sorem began her fashion as a high school model, working into fashion commcnt.iting Time out for two children took years, liut wtien her youngest was 10 she began talking with fashion people about a job that would correspond most closely with school hours. photography was her answer. Beginning with the start of the J.C. Penny catalog division in 1902 she became fashion colordinator and has held the position since that time.

Offering advice on fashion photography careers, she explains that gwid health is a must for the high pressure job. You have to he there csery day. good memory is essential. Wc photograph pages consecutively so important to remember what has already been Her third requirement for the job is typing skills, may never touch a typewriter, but that skill could get you an entree to the Airs. Sorem says the catalog customer ha.s changed, not a mail-order busi- nes.s The catalog customer is a surburari housewife.

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