Word: belair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rare spirit of hospitality, the Chicago Tribune's Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick opened the doors of his high-paneled office last week to an inquiring visitor. The visitor: New York Timesman Felix Belair Jr. Because he had a cold, the Colonel kept Reporter Belair at a respectful 15 feet to protect him from germs. But he let him have some gems of McCormick wisdom...
Most of the 13 White House reporters and five photographers who tagged along on the President's Christmas homecoming thought it was a foolish trip. In their stories, some of them said so. Wrote the New York Times's Felix Belair: it was "one of the most hazardous 'sentimental journeys' ever undertaken by an American Chief of State." All last week, editorials viewed the expedition with alarm: it was nice that Harry Truman wanted to go home for Christmas, but it would be an awfully easy way to lose a President...
Stylist. In Los Angeles, Hans Spangenberg, lover of labials, despiser of sibilants, asked court permission to change his name to Valcour Berne de Belair...
...most fascinating evenings I ever spent was listening to Felix Belair of our Washington office describing the mannerisms of U.S. legislators: how Carter Glass pounds the table when he gets riled, how Louisiana's Ellender whips off his glasses before he speaks, how Oregon's McNary shoots his cuffs, how Cotton Ed Smith is a dead shot at a cuspidor...
This new technique has permitted the MARCH OF TIME to bring you the voices of some of our TIME & LIFE correspondents like Hart Preston (in Ankara), Harry Zinder (in Cairo), Steve Laird (in London), Holland McCombs (in Rio), Bob Sherrod and Teddy White (in Australia), Felix Belair (in Washington) and 14 others who spoke from all sorts of unexpected places. And several times our editors (like Military Expert Roy Alexander, or Foreign News Editor Wilder Hobson) have gone on the air as news commentators to give you their expert judgment on some important development...