Word: caviar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Marx sent Beedle Smith some caviar, Smith, who had no taste for caviar, passed it on to his next-door neighbor at Fort Myer, Brigadier General Eisenhower. Later, Ike dropped in to thank Marx. The toymakers other military friends include NATO's General Alfred Gruenther, Strategic Air Command's General Curtis LeMay, General Omar Bradley, now a Bulova top executive, and General George Catlett Marshall. Even after they leaped into the headlines in wartime, Marx says, he was sure that the generals would be "forgotten like Bliss and Pershing," worried about the generals' financial future. In 1946, when...
Posturing Conceits. The networks also offered caviar to the general: NBC collaborated with Maurice Evans in a revival of Bernard Shaw's 58-year-old comedy about the American Revolution, The Devil's Disciple. The Shavian jape had a slow first act (more Shaw's fault than the producer's), but when Dennis King swept onstage as "Gentleman Johnny" Burgoyne, he and Actor Evans had a rousing time matching paradoxes and genteel insults. On CBS, Omnibus journeyed back 184 years to resurrect Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer, with a polished cast (Michael Redgrave...
...docked at Leningrad, the spirit of Geneva was still aglow. Soviet newsmen welcomed Boulat: "We know you are from TIME. How happy we are to see you!" And they whisked him about the city in a big black ZIS, stuffed him with food, and loaded him with gifts of caviar, jewelry and dolls...
...York Times building in Times Square. There are plenty of taxicabs (all checker banded) to take the visitor to a restaurant-the Aragva, the Praga, the Peking, the New Yar-where he will probably hear American jazz badly played and pay possibly $20 for an indifferent meal, though the caviar, the tea and the ice cream will be excellent. But Moscow night life, except for a furtive prostitute outside the Moskva Hotel and, in almost any bar, the sight of a solitary Russian throwing back innumerable vodkas will remain closed to the Western visitor...
...Perle Mesta, still a little breathless in her mink stole and red velvet cloche, reported to a gathering of local newshens: "The Far East is sizzling." Of her near-fatal brush with rioting Vietnamese students in Saigon (TIME, Aug. 1), the lady who has often placated riotous guests with caviar and champagne confessed: "I had no idea what a mob was like. It was a miracle that I got out of Saigon with all my luggage." Biggest flop of her trip came when Ace Conversationalist Mesta tried for an hour to worm some pleasantries from India's Prime Minister...