NEW YORK CITY – Curves will be unfashionable and hips impossible in winter styles for women, according to Miss Elizabeth A. C. White, president of the Dressmakers Protective Association of America. “The stylish figure,” Miss White declared, “will be one without hips, a straight-line figure.”

Miss White told a man who sought authoritative information that well-dressed women on winter affairs this coming season will wear demi-tailored skirts of gray, lavender, reddish-purple and light blue, black coats and waists of net embroidered in the color of the skirt.

50 years ago, 1957

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – A blockbuster dynamite explosion smashed a newly integrated grammar school early today as racial tension continued to mount beneath an ironclad police clampdown on segregation demonstrations.

PARIS – Virtually all France will be without bread for two days starting tomorrow when bakery employees and grain merchants go on strike. The issues in the two-day walkout include dissatisfaction with the government-fixed price of grain, a decree requiring whiter bread without a corresponding price increase,and bakery employees’ salaries.

AUGUSTA – The 20 millionth customer crossed the Memorial Bridge here today and to celebrate a toll collector paid their fare.

25 years ago, 1982

• A three-alarm fire screamed through three wooden apartment buildings in Auburn early Friday night, leaving at least 21 families homeless and causing the evacuation of many nearby apartment buildings and Heritage Court elderly housing project.

Witnesses to the 7 p.m. blaze, which destroyed two multifamily wooden apartment buildings on Spring Street and one on Pleasant Street, said it began with an explosion that immediately set the back of the buildings at 84-86 and 88-90 Spring St. into a “wall of flame.”

TURNER – The fourth annual convention of the Maine Trappers Association will be held here this weekend and among the guests will be Gov. Joseph Brennan and the “fastest trap setter in the U.S.”