Word: flair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Twining is a man of muscular geniality, hope, luck and an administrative flair as well as a noble, oil-grimed background. During World War II, he was named chief of the Thirteenth Air Force in the South Pacific, distinguished himself not only as a commander but as a castaway-he spent six days on a raft eating raw albatross and being parboiled by the tropic sun after a 6-17 crash at sea, near Espiritu Santo. He went to Italy, where he commanded the Fifteenth Air Force for 20 months, and then came back to the Pacific as commander...
...Look. There was also a revolution in car design and style. Old Henry Ford had never given a hoot about either ("Give them any color they want as long as it's black"). Edsel, who had a flair for design, brought out the Lincoln Continental in 1939. But he made little progress in getting the company to set up its own design department. Breech and young Henry made that a first order of business. They also hired George Walker, a noted independent Detroit designer...
...Call. Billy Ford, 28, is the irrepressible kid brother. He is the smallest (5 ft. 7 in.), and his wiry, 150-lb. frame is full of bounce. He not only has Old Henry's mechanical flair but his passion for collecting (he owns 200 old-fashioned guns). He is married to Martha Firestone, granddaughter of Harvey
Borge also has a flair for slapstick. He falls off the piano bench, sits on the keyboard, or trips over the microphone, always unexpectedly and with a look of such complete surprise that it doesn't matter how many comedians have done it before. Borge concludes the evening with his phonetic puntuation routine, familiar now for a decade, and it could have been written that afternoon...
...Herbert Jarrow is the hero of Author Edgar Mittelholzer's serio-comic melodrama, The Weather in Middenshot. Until he breaks the back of his new novel with a "message," Author Mittelholzer keeps it jumping with the same comic-sardonic flair that made Shadows Move Among Them (TIME, Sept. 17, 1951) an ingaging satire of a British Guiana Utopia...