Word: charvet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...budding sportswriters and the pathetic heavyweights he fed in the forlorn hope of some day owning a champ, Runyon was a hokum-laden, horseplaying, teetotaling, coffee-drinking (up to 40 cups a day, some said) legend. It was a legend clad neatly and gaudily in $200 suits, loud Charvet ties, studs and cuff links made out of gold pieces-and shoes at $50 a pair, broken in for him by the late Hype Igoe, a sports scribe who also wore size 5B. Like most rich Broadwayites, Runyon commuted from Manhattan to Miami, and could "remember when Miami Beach...
Wrote New York Herald Tribune Reporter Bert Andrews: "[The hearing] would have left an uninformed Australian puzzled as to whether America was trying to export Mr. Flynn as a diplomat or deport him as an undesirable." In grey suit and dazzling Charvet tie, which looked like a Dali dream, Ed Flynn denied all charges of graft and malfeasance made against him. Assistant Secretary of State G. Howland Shaw read a prepared statement calling Flynn "qualified," then deftly sidestepped all embarrassing questions. (Q: "Can you think of any poorer qualified man than Flynn?" A: "I am not in a position...
...Damon Runyon became a producer is that he glumly watched Mark Hellinger move up from script writing to producing, swore that he could do anything Hellinger could do and do it better. At first he so loathed California that his wife bet him a dozen of his famed cacophonous Charvet ties that he wouldn't last four weeks. He stuck it out five months at RKO, signed a contract with 20th Century-Fox, and has since become, in most respects, an acclimated if eccentric Hollywoodsman...