Word: flair
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...journalists (no doubt including Mike Cowles) knew the real trouble: in striving valiantly for the unusual, Flair had had too little old-fashioned journalistic flair itself. In the trade the gossip was that Flair had lost upwards...
...When Flair magazine came out last winter, it inspired a host of wisecracks and a clutch of New Yorker cartoons about the hole in its cover, the chopped-up pages and accordion inserts that unfold for a foot or more. But Flair's stories on such things as Americans in Paris, fox hunting, and how the Duchess of Windsor decorates her house failed to Stir up the same interest among readers or advertisers. Publisher Gardner (Look, Quick) Cowles and his wife, Flair Editor Fleur Cowles, who had dreamed two months ago of boosting their circulation guarantee from...
This week Flair's 100 staffers got the bad news: with its next (January) issue, Flair will fold. Twenty-four of the employees (including Editor Fleur) will be absorbed into other Cowles publications; the rest will be discharged. The reason for Flair's demise, said Mike Cowles, was that paper was too expensive and hard to get. And if Flair tried to expand, he said, it might have been hit all the harder by possible paper rationing next year...
...reward will be a fine performance by Actor Ferrer, who gets uniformly good support from Mala Powers, a pretty Roxane. William Prince does well as the tongue-tied Christian, and Ralph Clanton as the haughty Comte de Guiche. Ferrer gives his role its full measure of lovelorn fervor, comic flair and wry pathos. Wearing the white plume with grand-mannered dash and strut, he also displays the kind of swordsmanship that ought to charm the popcorn set into listening to the poetry...
...study production, mechanics and shop engineering. He got his first chance to show what he had learned in 1943 when he took over the job of running the Dodge airplane engine plant in Chicago. As postwar boss of the Dodge division and a Chrysler vice president, he showed a flair for handling labor and public relations...