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With a regal flourish, the Ladies' Home Journal, " 77-year-old dowager queen of the women's magazine held, last week swept a brand-new team of advertising and business experts into top command. Presumably in the same nonveaii spirit, the Journal's editors trotted out as their No. 1 feature for the October issue: an "exclusive" and interminable study of Monaco's Princess Grace. Was the Journal's editorial lure a mite shopworn? Princess Grace has already been X-rayed to exhaustion by LIFE (1956). Collier's (1957). Look...
...breeches, periwigs and white silk hose. On a balcony overhead. Surrealist Artist Salvador Dali abruptly appeared in a Venetian gondolier's outfit and a red Catalan cap, began splashing brown and gold paint on a canvas with such vehemence that he spattered the astonished audience below. With a flourish, he ripped the canvas open-and out flew a dozen frightened homing pigeons, to flap about looking wildly for their cote...
...sagging roofs vanish in a Byzantine fog. For years, the bureaucracy left unspent most of the millions allocated for repairs to the schools (267 of them are 50 years old or more); the backlog of needed repairs is about $75 million. Bureaucracy stifles new teaching methods, which flourish in suburban public schools. Each year, the system drives more parents to the suburbs, feeding the decay of city schools...
Personable Fred Maytag II brought the flourish of a master salesman to the company. He gave up a promising career in Iowa politics in 1949 to oversee the successful campaign to sell Maytag's first automatic washers, snapped the company out of the 1958 recession by ordering a 72-hour "salathon" that brought in orders worth $17 million...
...With a flourish of dire warnings, stern homilies and inspired publicity, Dr. Ali Amini last week entered into his second precarious month as Premier of Iran...