Word: flair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paris flea market, Fleur Fenton Cowles once bought a golden pin shaped like a swallow's wing, which she thought "a symbol of flight, excitement, beauty." Last week, as Fleur's new monthly magazine Flair spread its wings, a reproduction of the pin adorned its bright scarlet cover. To Editor Cowles, it was a moment of high excitement and typographical beauty. But more dispassionate observers considered the maiden flight hardly as breathtaking as all that...
Like the pre-publication dummy (TIME, Sept. 12), Flair's Vol. I, No. 1 was full of tricks. Samples: a "window" in the cover permitting a partial view of the next page, an accordion foldout, a page of Fleur's own self-assured handwriting in gold ink on blue paper, pages of odd sizes and varied textures. To readers familiar with Fleur's wearing of a rose as a trademark, Flair's frontispiece was the most Fleurish -and Freudian-touch of all: it was a reproduction of Girl with Roses by Artist Lucian Freud, grandson...
Despite the intentions of Editor Cowles and Managing Editor George Davis to make Flair "spectacularly different, completely unconventional," the new magazine often seemed like a blurred carbon copy of such well-established originals as Vogue, Harper's Bazaar and Town & Country. The best things in the first issue: French Artist Raymond Peynet's amorously whimsical drawings, a sepia and black Baedeker of Morocco, a new Tennessee Williams short story...
...President. And 40-year-old Charles Murphy, a poker-faced North Carolinian, would bow in. The White House was generally saddened at Clifford's departure. "It's a terrible loss," said a Truman intimate. "Charlie Murphy is a hard plugger but he lacks Clifford's flair and imagination. The rest of us will just have to try and supply Charlie with what he lacks." But otherwise the mechanism of Harry Truman's efficient Little Cabinet just ticked along...