Word: flair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Every time Fleur Fenton Cowles tried to tell her publisher-husband, Gardner Cowles, about the kind of monthly class magazine she would like to start, she found herself repeating: "It's got to have flair." Says Fleur: "I couldn't get around the word. I just had to use it." After she had dreamed and importuned for two years, Publisher Cowles decided that Fleur was absolutely right. This week, 46-year-old "Mike" and his 50-year-old brother John, who already own two magazines (Look, Quick), four newspapers and four radio stations, announced that they will publish...
...almost two decades as mayor, Adenauer proved a vigorous, progressive, highly popular administrator. He helped found Cologne's university, promoted the revival of an annual trade fair, set up a model settlement for workers. He had a natural flair for politics. "When I sat in the city hall in Cologne," Adenauer once said, "I used to think to myself: the Roman Empire went down, Bismarck's Prussian dream collapsed and now Kaiser Wilhelm's Reich has been destroyed. But this old city of Cologne lives on. It has outlasted them all, and it is worth...
History has recorded how Cesare tossed away his cardinal's hat, put himself at the head of a gang of mercenaries, and went to work on the new job of making himself the toughest gangster in Renaissance Italy. Cesare had such a flair for disposing of his enemies without leaving awkward evidence around that historians have never been able to agree on the subtler details of his career. Did he bully and terrify his own father half to death? Was he guilty of incest with his beautiful sister Lucrezia? Did he murder his elder brother? Did he really earn...
...Tight Spot. McCloy has learned to gauge how far people can be pushed, to hold out in good humor but dogged firmness through protracted debate. He has a flair for the right word in a tight spot. On Kwajalein after V-J day, an audience of G.I.'s greeted him with the chant, "When do we go home?" McCloy feigned deafness, cupped an ear, cried, "What's that? I can't hear you." It drew a laugh and eased the tension. In Nicaragua, while International Bank president, he was taken to a ballgame by Dictator Anastasio Somoza...
Published this week is a new Sayers book that lies somewhere between the two. Creed or Chaos (Harcourt, Brace; $2.25) is a collection of seven essays on contemporary Christianity, turned out with all the phrasemaking flair of a veteran bestseller writer. "The Christian faith," she writes, "is the most exciting drama that ever staggered the imagination of man-and the dogma is the drama...