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...setting Election Day on Wednesday, the devotional day of St. Joseph, his favorite saint. Then he donned a brown suit (his lucky color) and set off crisscrossing the province in one of his gaudy, old-style election campaigns, complete with banners, fireworks, and plentiful displays of the Duplessis-commissioned fleur-de-lis flag. His main theme, as ever, was the cry that the Ottawa government threatens Quebec's autonomy, endangers its language and religion. Ottawa's contingent of campaigning Cabinet ministers may have served to strengthen his argument; Defender Duplessis pointed to them as further evidence of Ottawa...
...Married. Fleur Fenton Cowles (real name: Florence Freedman), 45, associate editor of Look magazine from 1947 to November 1955; and Tom Meyer, 37, director of a British timber firm; she for the fourth time, he for the first, one month after her divorce from her third husband, Look Publisher Gardner Cowles; in Bel Air, Calif...
After nearly nine years of ostensibly happy though businesslike marriage Publisher (Look) Gardner Cowles, 52, and his editor (Flair) wife, ex-Adwoman Fleur Fenton Cowles, surprised even their intimates by agreeing to "a very amiable, friendly separation ... no immediate plans for divorce." A girl wonder at 16 (when she landed a $100-a-week advertising job), Fleur recently signed a new three-year contract to stay on as associate editor of Look, will also remain as a director of Cowles Magazines...
...Paris, after serving as an official U.S. representative at Queen Elizabeth's coronation, Editor Fleur (Look) Cowles had an explanation for the demure grey dress she wore to the ceremony: "I dressed down so as not to detract from the Queen. I told Valentina to make me a simple dress that would blend inconspicuously with the color of the Abbey pillars...
...Coronation Ball in London's Savoy Hotel revived two of President Eisenhower's four official U.S. representatives after the long ceremony at Westminster Abbey. Turned out in gold-braided full-dress uniform, General of the Army Omar Bradley launched into an enthusiastic off-beat rumba with Editor Fleur (Look) Cowles, whose diamond tiara was as grand as anything worn by a peeress...