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...Bon Vivant on cello: Cool, detached, debonair, he exudes calm assurance-and amore. Convinced that the sound of his cello is a mating call, he is a dedicated lady killer and a divorcee. Besides women, he collects Chinese jade and pre-Columbian...
...reasons are clear enough. Nicolson, now 80, is among the last of a vanishing species of Englishmen-a cultivated, gregarious, urbane, multitalented man who was a diplomat, politician and bon vivant, as well as an influential critic and writer. From 1930 to 1964 Nicolson sat down each morning after breakfast and typed out an unsparingly candid account of what he had done, seen and thought the day before. In October 1964, when his son Nigel began to winnow through the notes, he found about 3,000,000 words...
Died. Ward Morehouse, 67, drama critic and columnist, whose gently gossipy "Broadway After Dark" appeared for 40 years, first in the New York Sun, then in the World Telegram and Sun, and finally, since 1956, in the 21-paper Newhouse chain, a puckish bon vivant and raconteur who spent his winters holding forth at Manhattan's "21," his summers traveling to faraway places, all the while striving to put his own plays up in lights (Gentlemen of the Press), but with slight success; of pulmonary edema; in Manhattan...
...were both delighted to see our Other Woman gracing your cover. In fact, we plan to laminate your likeness of our patron saint of fine cuisine and hang it permanently in our kitchen, where Mrs. Child can afford us not only inspiration but, occasionally, solace for our fluffs. Bon...
...voice, and Powell's velvety, bourbon-cured baritone is clearly the voice that pleases Harlem's voters. In November, though aware of his defiance of the courts, they gave him a twelfth term with 74% of the vote. To them, "Old Adam," preacher, politician and perennial bon vivant, is a supremely satisfying symbol-a Negro who has managed to outplay Whitey at his own game. Still, Powell is so widely detested in the House that precedent may provide him with no pillow...