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...short chapters titled "The Camera," "Photography and My Head," "Money" and "Flagg Street," and in the descriptions of the friends whose faces and moods are the subjects of her photographs, Dorfman talks about the problems of trying to make a living by indexing books and selling pictures, of the way her camera subtlely intrudes into and alters conversations and relationships of being single and childless and surrounded by married couples with families...
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...