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...these three wildly different critics may not include the consistent best of the period, but certainly those films which were most talked about The series has been featured at several theaters in New York and one in Philadelphia and one surmises that at supplies excellent conversational fodder for cocktail parties...
Last June, apparently on a wild impulse, David J. Hanley, 30, dashed out of a cocktail lounge near St. Louis' Lambert Airport. He got into his 1972 Cadillac convertible and crashed it into an American Airlines 727 jet airliner in a foolhardy attempt to stop a skyjacking then in progress. The skyjacker and his hostage crew merely switched to another plane and took off with $502,500 in ransom (he parachuted safely, but was later arrested). Even so, Hanley was seen by some as a courageous citizen acting boldly to stop a crime...
...composers hold the sax is also due in part to its ascendancy in the 1920s as a leading voice of dance and jazz bands. (Critic Leonard Feather once wrote that the coat of arms for F. Scott Fitzgerald could have been two alto saxophones rampant on a field of cocktail shakers.) Even so, the sax had to overcome the prejudice of old-line jazz purists. Trumpeter Bunk Johnson once complained that it did not fit into the traditional New Orleans ensemble of trumpet, trombone and clarinet. "It just runs up and downstairs with no place to go," said Bunk...
...found determination: "The first half of this match was not very interesting for me. The second half will be." The usually difficult, demanding Bobby, on the other hand, seemed downright congenial. After taking a commanding lead in the match, Fischer at one point uncharacteristically consented to attend a cocktail party at the U.S. Information Agency in Reykjavík. Reports that he "mixed well" worried Fischer fans. As Bobby watchers know, the more complacent he be comes, the less effectively he plays...
Working in New York after the war, he met toothy, tawny-haired Eunice Kennedy at a cocktail party. Joseph P. Kennedy, impressed with his daughter's handsome, 6-ft. suitor, offered young Sarge a job at his Merchandise Mart in Chicago. Shriver accepted and eventually moved up to assistant general manager of the Mart; he wed the boss's daughter in 1953, and they settled down in a 14-room duplex. Shriver's energetic involvement in local affairs, most notably as president of the Chicago board of education for five years, prompted some pols to tout...