Word: flair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Casona was born 53 years ago in the Asturias country in northwest Spain, but left home at an early age to attend high school and college in Murcia and Madrid. Imbued with a flair for the romantic and an avowed democrat politically, he was an ardent supporter of the Republican government in Spain and used his rapidly developing literary talents to aid its cause. After service in various important cultural positions, he was forced to flee the country in 1937 in the face of approaching Fascist armies...
...upper echelons. Under Pontiac Boss Robert M. Critchfield, 61, who will move up to head G.M.'s entire process development staff, Pontiac in 1956 has slipped more than most other G.M. lines. By giving the job to Bunky Knudsen, 43, an engineer who showed a flair for sales as chief of the Detroit Diesel Engine Division, G.M. hoped to speed up Pontiac...
Maine's Governor Edmund Sixtus Muskie is a tall (6 ft. 4 in.), genial, boyish (42) Democrat with a demonstrated flair for the political upset in a traditionally Republican stronghold. Last week, 21 months after he achieved the improbable by vaulting into the Statehouse over a faction-ridden G.O.P., he sauntered unopposed through the state primary and seemed as popular as ever...
...series of reports on the critical area where Russian diplomacy is stoking the fires of Arab nationalism against the West. As a pundit, 46-year-old Joseph Wright Alsop, who shares his column with brother Stewart, often overdramatizes the dark side into deepest doom. But Alsop's dramatic flair as a reporter in foreign lands seizes surely on color, incident, history and personality to bring a situation crackling to life. In this journalistic field he has had few peers since the days of Vincent (Personal History) Sheean...
...University of Miami's Irwin Luck, 18, tyro tunesmith, proved his sophomore flair for big-time promotion. Weary of begging Crooner Perry Como to plug a passel of Lucky lyrics, Floridian Luck anted up $500 of his own savings plus $350 from his real-estate man papa, bought a month's space on a huge (20 ft.-by-60 ft.) billboard near Times Square to make his plea public. Excerpt from Luck's open letter to Como: "I pray that you will give me the chance to meet you and maybe hear you sing...