Word: flair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York Daily News, which covers sexy, sensational stories with a flair that no other tabloid can match, last week broke a story that surprised even hardened News readers. Splashed across Page One was a banner headline: EX-G.I. BECOMES BLONDE BEAUTY. Said the story: "A Bronx youth, who served two years in the Army during the war and was honorably discharged, has been transformed by the wizardry of medical science into a beautiful woman." Under the banner were pictures of George W. Jorgensen, 26, the George who "is no more," and Christine, "the new woman" he became after "five...
...poised and handsome 47, with a flair for wearing clothes and a brisk, aloof air of success, Oveta Hobby first took to politics at the age of ten when she began reading the Congressional Record aloud to her father, a lawyer and state legislator. At 20, she was parliamentarian for the Texas legislature, later went to work as a clerk on the Houston Post. She married its publisher, ex-Governor William Pettus Hobby (she was 26, he was 52) in 1931, soon became a power on the newspaper (this fall she formally became its editor & publisher). She has two children...
...Spark Plug division. Within a year, he was AC's comptroller, the youngest executive (at 21) in the industry. He got a reputation as a comer who could "pitch, catch and cover first base at the same time." He learned finance, production and design, showed an aggressive flair for sales. At 35, he was named AC's president...
...eleven, someone discovered that the boy wonder had never attended school. Merchant Julius Rosenwald, a Patzer and philanthropist, soon remedied this defect. Six months of tutoring brought Reshevsky up to high-school level and he went on to graduate from the University of Chicago. Except for a flair for mathematics, he was just an average student...
...crucifix from his confessor's hand. His colleague lasted a few years more, but soon went insane, and died so. Father Jean-Joseph Surin, the great Jesuit contemplative who finally cured Sister Jeanne, did so only at the cost of becoming himself possessed. Sister Jeanne, however, with her flair for the dramatic, became a celebrity, and toured France to show off some handwriting God had supposedly done on her body...