Word: brush
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...German soil as at the reality of unspecified crises still to come. In this farseeing aim lies the significance of his speech. Beyond its impact on the Berlin question - and impact it will surely have - the nation's new mood and new strength should douse any future brush fires that Khrushchev chooses to light. For if the U.S. is prepared to deal with aggression militarily - and there can be no doubt now that it is - then it will be all the more prepared to deal with it in advance by diplomacy...
...forthcoming book, Franny and Zooey, "that a writer's feelings of anonymity-obscurity are the second most valuable property on loan to him during his working years." With customary obliqueness, Salinger pointedly failed to state what he considered a writer's most valuable property, proceeded to brush off the usual biographical data with the uncandid note: "My wife has asked me to add, however, in a single explosion of candor, that I live in Westport with...
After protecting Presidents and their families from summit conferences to swimming pools and from the blood-stained steps of Blair House to the fox hunting fields of Middleburg, U. E. (for Urbanus Edmond) Baughman wanted out. Confessed the lanky, brush-haired veteran of 33 years in the Secret Service, the last 13 as its chief: "At 56 I'm worn out." Baughman's post-retirement plans: "I'm going to do all the things I've been watching other people...
Steam heat is, in fact, the ideal climate for Mauldin's style of searing creativity. In an art that often uses a shovel instead of a rapier, a backslap instead of a boot, Mauldin, 39, wields the hottest editorial brush in the U.S. Full of caustic and rebellious passions, he boils over onto his drawing board with the scalding effect of a well-aimed spit of lava. "You've got to be a misanthrope in this business," says Mauldin. "A real son of a bitch. I'm touchy. I've got raw nerve ends...
...venture was Managing Director Edward Tatham, who abbreviated the name of the whisky to J. & B. on finding that Justerini & Brooks was too much of a mouthful for U.S. bartenders and elbow benders. Tatham, now 63, has passed active management to Co-Managing Director Ralph Cobbold, 55, a brush-mustached, ex-Coldstream Guards officer who was captain of cricket at Eton and won his blue at Cambridge. Though a four-way fight for first place in the U.S. Scotch market is shaping up. Cobbold is certain that there is one tactic he will not use: price cutting. "We insist," says...