Word: chatted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three days in mid-December, Annigoni sketched and painted in the President's oval office, for about seven hours each day. Between appointments, Kennedy would chat with Annigoni; at other times, with important visitors present, "they thought of me as a chair, a piece of furniture." Once the President wryly suggested his disapproval of a bold charcoal line representing his chin. The President showed Annigoni a small painting by another artist. "She'd be angry," he said, "if she knew I was showing it to you." Before long, Annigoni met the other artist, and they got along...
Next day, when he breezed into the Yankee office for a contract chat with General Manager Roy Hamey, perennial Holdout Mantle was the picture of noblesse oblige. He signed without protest for $82,000-the second highest salary in Yankee history (topped only by Joe DiMaggio's $100,000) and a $10,000 boost over his 1961 earnings. Then he sparred pleasantly with newsmen. Would he try to cut down on strike-outs (112 in 1961) next season? "That's been my goal for six straight years," said Mantle. "I haven't done much about...
Sheer respect for Henrik Ibsen (even Ibsen at his worst), provided the momentum for last night's production at the Loeb. Director Caroline Cross persistently believed in the applicability of the play, and a good cast went far toward transforming grandiose chit-chat into drama...
...Gromyko and U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk had gone over the same ground in their September talks in Washington and New York. But Kroll excitedly buttonholed Nikita Khrushchev on the subject a little later in the evening. Khrushchev asked Kroll to drop over to his office for a chat soon, and when Kroll presented himself two days later, Nikita said jovially: "Tell me how to get out of this Berlin situation." Kroll told him-for an hour and 45 minutes...
Kroll's cabled reports on the Moscow chat stunned Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. Within ten days he would be in Washington for talks with President John F. Kennedy on the next steps in the Berlin crisis; U.S. Ambassador Thompson was awaiting the outcome before picking up his own discussions with the Russians. Sputtering with rage, Adenauer demanded Kroll's head...