Word: naming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...importuned for two years, Publisher Cowles decided that Fleur was absolutely right. This week, 46-year-old "Mike" and his 50-year-old brother John, who already own two magazines (Look, Quick), four newspapers and four radio stations, announced that they will publish a new magazine next February. Its name: Flair. Its editor: Fleur Cowles. She has already quietly signed up a staff headed by General Manager Arnold Gingrich (ex-editor of Esquire...
...Wall Street in 1917, bought & sold so shrewdly that he was boss of an investment company with assets of $14 million by the time he was 37. During the depression he snapped up bargains, now has holdings in some 30 companies through his Atlas Corp. He earned the name "Fifty Percent Odium" because, his friends said, "he buys everything for 50? on the dollar...
...Revlon Products Corp. brought out a combination ballpoint pen and lipstick (choice of ten shades). The name: Fashion-Write. Price: $1.50, plus...
Born. To Herbert Hoover III, 21, sophomore at Stanford University, and Meredith McGilvray Hoover, 21: their first child (and first great grandchild for ex-President Hoover), a son; in Palo Alto, Calif. Name: Stephen. Weight...
...Gosden, 50, long-suffering "Amos" of radio's perennial Amos 'n' Andy, and Jane Stoneham Gosden, 25, half-sister of the New York Giants' President Horace Stoneham: their first child (he has a son and daughter by a previous marriage), a son; in Los Angeles. Name: Craig Leigh. Weight...