Word: whips
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first issue had more artifice than art, nobody was selling Editor Fleur or Publisher (and husband) Gardner Cowles short. Issue No. 2, already in the works, was much improved-cleaner and simpler layouts, bigger pictures, less prune whip and more meat. And Publisher Cowles and brother John Cowles, whose picture magazine Look (circ. 3,039,811) and news digest Quick (which claims 700,000) were doing handsomely, were prepared to underwrite Fleur's Flair for as long as necessary. The confident circulation guarantee for Flair's first year...
...Charroin Manufacturing Co. of San Diego. Their charge: that Plant Manager Walter L. Berry Jr. had influenced the voting by dressing up like Simon Legree (i.e., in a long black coat, a black hat, boots and a big black mustache) and rushing through the plant cracking a large whip and crying, "You must vote!" But after listening to Berry's explanation-that the union had given him the idea by getting out a pamphlet in which he was depicted as a saliva-drooling wolf-the board decided to let the results stand...
...drifted wide, carrying Citation out with him. For a while it looked like a repetition of the race two years ago at Havre de Grace, when an unknown named Saggy handed Citation one of his two defeats in 30 starts. But one lick of Jockey Steve Brooks's whip shot Citation into the lead. He coasted down the stretch like a champion, ears pricked forward, and won by a length and a half. His time for the six furlongs: a creditable...
...times, Harvard looked very good; other times it was only fair. Nevertheless, it was encouraging to whip a League toe by almost 20 points...