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Straw-haired, sleekly groomed Fleur Cowles doesn't own a hat, usually wears tailored suits, a rose, and black horn-rimmed glasses, is never without a huge (1 in.) Russian emerald ring ("It's my trademark, it's me, it's Fleur - rough, uncut, vigorous"). Says she: "I've worked hard, and I've made a fortune, and I did it in a man's world, but always, ruthlessly, and with a kind of cruel insistence, I have tried to keep feminine." For a sampling of Fleur's insistent femininity, readers could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Fleur's Flair | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

Smith College's Eleanor Shipley Duckett, 68, crisp, brisk author and scholar of Latin and medieval literature (Anglo-Saxon Saints and Scholars; Gateway to the Middle Ages) whose Latin 28 was one of Smith's most uncut classes. A D.Lit. from the University of London, Miss Duckett for years shared a trim white house with her West Highland white terrier Gregory (named after Gregory the Great) and Novelist Mary Ellen Chase (Silas Crockett, The Bible and the Common Reader); she has long celebrated the completion of each Chase book by buying its author an ice cream cone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Goodbye, Messrs. Chips | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

Later, he bought the Jonker diamond, recognized as the world's fourth biggest uncut stone † ; and the President Vargas, third biggest, and Venezuela's smaller Libertador. He paid $2,100,000 for the three, cut them into 45 smaller stones and sold the lot for nearly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIAGE TRADE: Big Rocks | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

...Films, Harvard's undergraduate Hollywood, finished shooting its first production a week ago. Now, after slashing away at over 8000 feet of uncut film, the outfit has 70 minutes worth of comic fantasy, a true "Touch of the Times," ready for sheak preview Wednesday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Touch of the Times' Ready For Screening on Wednesday | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

This week the U.S. theater's most successful director of Shakespeare's works (sample feat: she made a hit of the Maurice Evans Hamlet in the uncut version, running 4½ hours) is launching her most ambitious Shakespearean venture. She is sending out a motorized touring company to play Shakespeare on a scale-and with financial assurance-unprecedented by any other troupe of Broadway caliber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Shakespeare on Wheels | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

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