Word: cecil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Speaking at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., beefy (6 ft. 4 in., more than 250 lbs.) British Press Lord Cecil Harmsworth King, whose tabloid London Daily Mirror has the world's largest daily circulation though little else to brag about, offered a disdainful critique of U.S. newspapers: "A lot of little parish magazines . . . with acres of soggy verbiage, cubic miles of repetitious reports, incredibly bad headlines, nonexistent layouts and ludicrous handling of pictures...
Subsequent foolery had Kovacs in a Cecil B. DeMille suit, grafted by trick camera work on antique film clips as a furious and futile director. The joke dragged on too long. But it was followed by one inspired bit of mockery: an immense, grossly fat ballerina staggering to the first crashing chords of Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture, with the rest of that philharmonic turkey illustrated by rhythmically cracking celery and splattering eggs...
Redbricks abound in able professors, from Leeds's noted Chemist Frederick Dainton to Swansea's Novelist Kingsley (Lucky Jim) Amis. But not all redbrick dons are happy with their "exile" from cozy Oxbridge. Novelist Amis himself is shifting soon to Cambridge. Says Nobel Prizewinner Cecil Frank Powell, head of Bristol's topnotch (cosmic rays) physics department: "We've got Cambridge licked in our department-but Cambridge nevertheless has something we can never match...
...Davis married a wealthy Chicago socialite named Cecil Clark, an "advanced" woman who preferred raising dogs to raising children. Before the wedding she informed him that the marriage would be platonic. He agreed. Thirteen years later, after his mother died, he found the strength to get a divorce. At 48 he married a showgirl, Bessie McCoy, who was half...
Jack Kennedy's favorite book is David Cecil's Melbourne, the biography of William Lamb, second Viscount Melbourne (1779-1848), who was Queen Victoria's first Prime Minister. Readers have noted striking similarities between the character, vigor and intellectual attainments of the Kennedy family and Lamb & Co.-who sparkled in an age of new frontiers and brilliant individuality. Running through the pages, too, is a startling bevy of women named Caroline...