Word: compliments
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...season valentine to Britain's loverly ladies, including six pages of color pictures and a story savoring the flowering of British beauty in post-austerity Britain, aroused intense national pride. "America's No. 1 news magazine," reported the London Daily Sketch, paid "OUR Fair Ladies" an extraordinary compliment. "TIME," agreed the News Chronicle, "has an expert roving eye." But when British wives and sweethearts began to ask why British menfolk had to wait for an American news magazine to appreciate them, latent male jealousy asserted itself. "On behalf of the Brit ish male," wrote the Star...
...cabal of other Paris designers who tried to prevent style piracy. "Thirty years ago," she says proudly, "I went to dinner at Giro's. I remember counting 23 Chanel dresses in the room. But I was sure of only one: mine. I found that a very pretty compliment...
...wish to compliment you on the excellent article, "Where Are Tomorrow's Doctors?", which appeared in your June 20 issue...
...Cocked Hat (Boulting Bros.; Show Corp. of America) launches a satirical spitball at the British Foreign Office, which not long ago returned the compliment by scotching plans to enter the movie in the recent Moscow Film Festival. Encouraged to know that the Banner of Blimpism (a blue funk on a field of choler) still flies, Britons by the thousands crowded in to see the spoof, and doubtless the film's American distributors would welcome a similar seal of disapproval from the U.S. State Department. At any rat Producers John and Roy Boulting, wh subverted the army in Private...
Invading New York last January, Johnson got a tender kiss from Anna Rosenberg, onetime Assistant Defense Secretary in the Truman Administration, and a compliment from a Roman Catholic priest: "Now there's a man I like." Philip Graham, president and publisher of the Washington Post, agrees. "There isn't a single reason why Lyndon Johnson should be President of the United States," he says, "except that he's the best man." Not the least of Johnson's admirers is his wife, Lady Bird, who recently finished a cram course in public speaking and is effectively demonstrating...