Word: bons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Happened Last Night," appears six days a week and is now syndicated in nearly 200 newspapers. Wilson treads his ex-stable mate's old path around Manhattan and keeps the same strenuous hours. The fruit of all that effort-a dollop of show business shoptalk and a few bon mots from the stars, wrapped around a demi-cheesecake photo of some starlet-may not always seem worth it. But occasionally he comes up with a genuine hard-news scoop, like his 1953 disclosure that Dr. Jonas Salk was working on a polio vaccine. Wilson heard it from Helen Hayes...
...knees and there was a crusty line of sand up the front of his jacket. He looked frightened, but his eyes shone. He pulled from his pocket a handful of round, smooth stones from the beach. "Bombs!" he said. "I went to the beach and got bombs Le Bon Dieu will hurl these at them and kill them, and then put them in a volcano...
There was rarely any danger of boredom in Whistler's vicinity. He spent most of his 69 years as an expatriate in England and France working as hard on his bon mots as on his canvases and copper plates. It was entirely fitting that when his collected correspondence was published in 1890, it was entitled The Gentle Art of Making Enemies. Whistler was one of the most vengeful litigants since Shylock. "When I pay you six-and-eightpence, I pay you six-and-eightpence for law, not justice," he once told his solicitor, who had dared suggest that...
...fact, it should likely fall to Mickey Rooney-who has already offered his services. Riggs stands 5 ft. 7½ in., and, with that peculiar waddle and a well-tinted Cesare Borgia haircut that verges on the grotesque, he seems unsuited for the role of either athlete or bon vivante. But the girls are around, and, since he travels a lot these days, Riggs keeps one on ice in each section of the country, pledging her the "franchise" for that particular area code. Like every other aspect of his life, sex seems to be a game with Riggs...
...Federal Judge Lawrence Whipple in a nonjury trial last week, both sides were ready with mighty rhetorical flourishes. "The consumer must not unknowingly be placed in a position of playing a life-or-death game of Russian roulette when it comes to the food he eats," said the prosecutor. Bon Vivant's lawyer answered that such a charge amounted to "scare tactics designed to get a decision based on passion." The prosecutor promised to bring in "perhaps three dozen" microbiologists to prove his case. Bon Vivant's principal owner, Mrs. Maria Paretti, insisted that the food was perfectly...