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Despite the intentions of Editor Cowles and Managing Editor George Davis to make Flair "spectacularly different, completely unconventional," the new magazine often seemed like a blurred carbon copy of such well-established originals as Vogue, Harper's Bazaar and Town & Country. The best things in the first issue: French Artist Raymond Peynet's amorously whimsical drawings, a sepia and black Baedeker of Morocco, a new Tennessee Williams short story...
...wags. Or was it a mixture of "the Mosque of St. Athanase, in Egypt," plus "the temple of Apollinop-olis at Etfou?" Cincinnati citizens, who watched it abuilding in 1829 didn't know what the devil it was-except that it was to be named "Trollope's Bazaar" and to supply high-priced fancy goods and foreign culture. But "every rogue within cheating distance" was working on it for the nutty British owner, 49-year-old Mrs. Frances Trollope. They were selling her bricks at three times the market price, laying "gas pipes" that conducted nothing...
Most people eat. There are, therefore, a lot of eating places in the Boston and Cambridge area. The Ararat, as Armenian vittles bazaar at 71 Broadway, is tasty--and cheap, a bit out of the ordinary. Simeone's, 21 Brookline Street--1 block from Central Square--offers Italian-American cuisine for those who don't want to hike it all the way to Boston. You can't beat the Viking at 442 Stuart Street for variety. A heaping smorgasbord is within easy striking distance of most tables. Jake Wirth's on Stuart Street featrues the best local Gorman beer...
...your pleasure. Without its mothballs and sometimes outdated traditions, the music and action take on new life and dramatic power." This introduction is typical of those to be found in the fall course catalogue for the Cambridge Center for Adult Education, a twelve-year-old information bazaar housed in William Brattle's 294-year-old manse next to the Brattle Hall Theater...
...married her fellow dancer, handsome Fernand Fonssagrives. Both soon gave up dancing, he to be a photographer, she to be a model. She tripped into the profession by chance: a young photographer asked her to pose for him. The results were sensational. Vogue and Harper's Bazaar fought to get her services as a mannequin; she has worked for both. Horst, one of the first photographers for whom she posed, recalls that she trembled with fear during her early sittings, but soon lost her stage fright, and became a top Paris, model. (She once posed in an evening gown...