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Kennedy's personality and appearance have not grown portly with his position. Classmates remember him as an "outdoor sort of chap" with a ruddy face a ready smile, and distinct evidences of a North Shore accent. He remains that way today. Through diverse and intensive enjoyment of athletics, he has managed to keep a remarkable physical state. His late forties show only around the temples...
Hole in the Wallpaper. A Jamaican moved into a flat formerly occupied by a quiet, well-dressed chap named John Reginald Halliday Christie. Scouting about for a place to install a bathtub, he accidentally poked through a piece of wallpaper in the kitchen. A woman's leg fell out through the opening. He ran into the street shouting murder...
...between abstraction and realism: a forbiddingly cold and empty structure, rising like some futuristic television antenna, with three grieving women looking up from beneath. Butler thinks that his symbolism suits a monument far better than any standard, realistic figure. Says he: "You must avoid the reaction, 'Oh, poor chap, he does look thin.' And if I made a statue of a god, it would be a big man or a small man with a big tummy or a flat tummy. So to make an image, I conceive a prisoner who is invisible. The prisoner is in the cage...
...weak dish of tea. But something new and refreshingly British was added when the young Marquess of Blandford, son of the Duke of Marlborough, took up station there as captain in the Life Guards, one of Her Majesty's oldest and finest regiments. The Marquess, a real sporting chap, brought not only his young bride but also the ducal hounds. The 25-year-old Marquess and his fellow officers had no trouble rounding up pink coats, and the hunt...
...Vice Admiral Louis Mountbatten, uncle of the Duke of Edinburgh. He and Carney will be of equal standing under Ridgway, and in time of war will "coordinate." What did the word mean? reporters asked. "Coordinate," explained NATO Secretary General Lord Ismay of Britain, "is fixing it with the other chap...