Word: abuzz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Getty set London abuzz with what seemed at first glance an amazing about-face. He announced that he was buying the Duke of Sutherland's vast Sutton Place mansion* on an estate near Woking, 23 miles from London (14 principal bedrooms. 20 servants' rooms, 16 baths, 140-ft. ballroom, 140-ft. library, and Great Hall with minstrels' balcony). Price for the house plus swimming pool, nine-hole golf course and 174 acres of parkland: a Getty secret, but probably well over...
...through the plain, distressed eyes of Captain Alan Curtis, veteran of Korea, Kenya, Cyprus-TV Tycoon Lord Arthur Illius announces plans for a Festival of London. A prize, gravely named the Grail, is offered to the citizen who contributes the best ideas to the festival, so all Britain is abuzz with ludicrous suggestions: "Demands to restore the pillory; to rebuild horse-troughs; proposals that women should wear wimples in August; that the Duke of Edinburgh should open a Joust in full armour." Around Lord Illius himself clot applauding yes men, tame academics and cultural parasites, all out to dazzle...
People just wouldn't believe him, decided the law professor, and so for nearly a year he kept his little secret. Finally he let the word slip out to a friend. Last week all Brazil was abuzz about the reluctant claim of João de Freitas Guimaraes. 48. a wealthy, respected professor of Roman law at Santos' Catholic University. Did the professor really take an hour-long whirl through outer space in a flying saucer...
...await its end, lapped in the comfort of hoarded memories, expensive motorcars and the fellowship of their own kind. Noisy intruders are seldom permitted to disturb the genteel gossip and endless bridge games that help time pass for the oldsters in Eastbourne. Yet, last week, all of Britain was abuzz with the awful speculation that skulking, sudden death had forced its way into Eastbourne...
...America. Big, rumpled Chris Ravndal, whose great forte is public relations-he likes to get out into the back country and put across the U.S. point of view-served his first ambassadorial assignment in Uruguay, is an authority on Latin American affairs. All the shifts left the State Department abuzz at week's end with one big unanswered question: Who replaces Allen as Assistant Secretary for the Near East...