Word: bons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that Maloney (salary: $50,000 a year) had a knack for collecting double and treble on his expense accounts. Once he traveled to Europe on behalf of the U.S. Labor Department, collected $1,001 from the Government, $13,387 from the union for such items as pictures for his bon -voyage party ($1,054); a camera, which was listed as "a recording machine" ($411); a car bought in France and shipped...
...Western Hemisphere lost its most commanding painter and one of its thorniest personalities. A huge, suave, slow-moving, spherical creature with great sophistication and prodigious energy, he made a practice of overwhelming women-and all opponents but the last. The rich enjoyed him as a comradely collector and bon vivant (he left a million-dollar estate plus a collection of pre-Columbian Indian art worth as much again). Beggars revered him as a man who courteously pressed folding money into their outstretched hands. Communist leaders kept booting him out of the party for insubordination and then taking him back because...
First, Angelenos don't like Walter O'Malley's shenanigans. When he won the mineral rights to Chavez Ravine, he lost the unquestioning trust which the sport-shirted Southern Californian bon vivant gave to open classification baseball...
...comedy at 19, went on to write more than 130 plays, ranging from semiserious portrayals of great men (Pasteur, Mozart) to whipped-cream farces (L'Illusionniste), in the '30s added films (The Story of a Cheat). In his acting, he epitomized the wry, shoulder-shrugging French bon vivant, but bitterly offended countrymen by continuing to act and write under the Nazi occupation ("I didn't want Paris to die . . ."), was once (1948) kidnaped by former resistance fighters in Lyon, forced to stand at silent attention for one minute before a memorial to martyred war heroes...
Last week, after he had appeared as a Government witness in the contempt trial of White Supremacist John Kasper and 15 Clinton citizens. Editor Wells's questions were resoundingly answered at the National Conference of Weekly Newspaper Editors' annual convention in Car bon'dale, Ill. There Wells received...