Sublime

Mort Leven played in the orchestra at Twentieth Century-Fox. They paid him $150 a week, which, in 1949 when he went “under contract,” was a comfortable salary. It allowed him to put a down payment on their house in Santa Monica where they could live happily ever after for as long as ever after would bear up.

Liberman was appointed Vogue’s art director in 1942 he rebelled against Parisian dominance. “I had always resented the fussy, feminine, condescending approach to women by women’s magazines,” he asserted. “I thought it was important to shake up this rather somnolent society. If we had to show hats, I tried to mix hats with contemporary life.”