Word: fleurs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...left of the case is pinned the royal banner of fleur de lis which Lafayette carried leading his French troops under General Washington during the American Revolution...
...after his father had died, leaving him a small legacy, he headed for Paris, to drift casually through its salons and cafes. In 1940 he moved to Venice, where he became a familiar sight, plying the canals in his huge gondola, a parrot perched on his shoulder, the words "fleur de misere" (flower of misery) printed in red across the chest of his heavy navy-blue sweater. At his daily teas, intellectuals and artists hobnobbed with petty thieves and guttersnipes, whom he had met during his bohemian wanderings...
...woman, looking for a painting by John Marin (whose work was not in the show) spent $200 worth of stickers, only to be disappointed when she learned the artists' names. "Well, I certainly got some stinkers!" she muttered. "Who ever heard of them?" Among other buyers were Fleur Cowles of Look magazine, who got abstractions by Hans Hoffmann and George L. K. Morris, Novelist Kathleen (Forever Amber) Winsor, who got a landscape, and the University of Georgia museum, which picked up three paintings and two sculptures...
...foot or more. But Flair's stories on such things as Americans in Paris, fox hunting, and how the Duchess of Windsor decorates her house failed to Stir up the same interest among readers or advertisers. Publisher Gardner (Look, Quick) Cowles and his wife, Flair Editor Fleur Cowles, who had dreamed two months ago of boosting their circulation guarantee from 200,000 to 250,000, got the realities of the situation as the real figures came in. In October and November, said Cowles, 30% of the magazines sent to newsstands were returned...
This week Flair's 100 staffers got the bad news: with its next (January) issue, Flair will fold. Twenty-four of the employees (including Editor Fleur) will be absorbed into other Cowles publications; the rest will be discharged. The reason for Flair's demise, said Mike Cowles, was that paper was too expensive and hard to get. And if Flair tried to expand, he said, it might have been hit all the harder by possible paper rationing next year...