Word: flagg
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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JAMES MONTGOMERY FLAGG...
Susan E. Meyer. 207 pages. Watson-Guptill. $27.50. James Montgomery Flagg is probably best known to the public for his enlistment poster of a Jehovic Uncle Sam demanding I WANT YOU, for which he used himself as the model. As an illustrator, however, he favored beautiful women as his subjects; some of his best works are portraits of the famous, including Mark Twain, John and Ethel Barrymore. Susan Meyer's book offers a wide selection of Flagg's relaxed yet robust drawings, paintings and poster art, and fondly fills in the lively biographical gaps...
...fiscal year ended July 3 1, sales of Genesco's various divisions (Bonwit Teller, I. Miller, Flagg Bros. Shoes) reached a record $1.4 billion, but the company lost $53 million. To stop the drain, Franklin has decided to close 100 women's shoe stores, to sell an Italian men's clothing firm, and is even unloading the 347-unit S.H. Kress variety store chain. He has already shut down three textile plants in Tennessee and North Carolina. Together, these operations accounted for $18 million of the fiscal-1973 red ink. From now on, says Frank the Knife...
Died. Samuel Flagg Bemis, 81, longtime professor of diplomatic history at Yale (1935-60) who won two Pulitzer Prizes: in 1927 for Pinckney's Treaty, an outline of U.S. relations with Spain, and in 1950 for John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy; in Bridgeport, Conn...