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Fleur Cowles' first husband was Bertram Klapper, a manufacturer of wood shoe heels. They later divorced. Her second husband was Atherton "Pett" Pettingell Jr. (1901–1971), an advertising executive who was a grandnephew of Samuel M. Pettingell, who founded one of the first advertising agencies in
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She founded it with her second husband, Atherton Pettingell, a former executive vice president of Blacker Advertising. Among its clients were A. S. Beck, the shoe concern, Helena Rubenstein, the cosmetics company, and Cohama Fabrics. She resigned from the firm in 1946.
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in November 1955 upon her separation from Gardner Cowles and moved to Europe, where she served as the magazine's foreign editorial consultant. Before founding
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In November 1955, she married her fourth and last husband, Tom Montague Meyer (CBE), a timber executive. The Meyers lived for a number of years in
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Cowles, Fleur & Conder, Susan "Flower Decorations : A New Approach to Flower Arranging". Octopus Publishing Group.
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Cowles, Fleur "The Life and Times of the Rose: An Essay on Its History With Many of the Author's Own Paintings".
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Cowles, Fleur "All Too True: Twenty-Nine True Stories That Might Have Been Invented". Quartet Books, Ltd.
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etc.," was celebrated not only because of its design and editorial production by European art director
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Cowles, Fleur & De Campo, Brooke "Bright Young Things: London". Perseus Distribution Services.
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In later decades, Cowles served on various government committees, such as writing speeches for the
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Cowles, Fleur & Conder, Susan "Flower Decorations : A New Approach to Flower Arranging".
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Cowles, Fleur & Conder, Susan "The New Guide to Flower Arranging". Octopus Publishing Group.
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Describing herself as "rough, uncut, vigorous" as her trademark Russian emerald ring, she told
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later in life: Dr. Paul William Freeman, a dentist (1906–1966), and Mildred Freeman Goetze
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Fleur Cowles' painting "Desert Journey" was reproduced as the cover of the 1968
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magazine in 1950, and it folded a year later. The magazine, which
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America in 1850. They married prior to 1937 and divorced in 1946.
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Cowles, Fleur "The Life and Times of the Rose". Orion Books Ltd.
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Penelope Green, "Mirror, Mirror: Making Life a Bed of Roses",
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collected much of the material from the magazine she founded.
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Cowles, Fleur "The Case of Salvador Dali". Heinemann (1959)
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In the early and mid 1930s, she wrote a weekly column for
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Cowles, Fleur "The Best of Flair". Scriptum Editions.
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described at its launch as "a fancy bouillabaisse of
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Atherton "Pett" Pettingell Jr. (married 1937(?)-1946)
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Clark. 8: 1179:The National Archives: The text Message Blog 990: 988: 986: 647:Cowles, Fleur "If I Were an Animal" Morrow. 1070: 1068: 283:In 1947, she became an associate editor at 134: 1946⁠–⁠1955) 29: 18: 901: 899: 897: 895: 618:Cowles, Fleur "Friends & Memories". 891: 291:magazine. She resigned her position at 1175:"The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II" 940:Fleur Cowles profile at Britannica.com 496:Cowles, Fleur "An Artist's Journey". 7: 1082:. September 12, 1949. Archived from 919: 917: 1322:20th-century American women writers 1181:. The National Archives. 2018-05-31 950:Paid obit for Dr. Paul W. Freeman, 537:Cowles, Fleur "The Best of Flair". 522:Cowles, Fleur "The Best of Flair". 797:"She Made Friends and Kept Them". 763:"Romany Free". 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Gardner Cowles Jr.
New York City
Montclair, New Jersey
Gardner Cowles, Jr.
Cowles Media Company
Des Moines Register
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Look magazine
London
Sussex
Spain
The New York World-Telegram
Time
S. J. Perelman
The New Yorker
Washington, D.C.

Time
Federico Pallavicini
W. H. Auden
Simone de Beauvoir
Winston Churchill
Jean Cocteau
Salvador Dalí
Lucian Freud
Clare Boothe Luce
Ogden Nash
Saul Steinberg
Rufino Tamayo

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