Word: connoisseuring
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...Japanese connoisseur who saw the Army's exhibit last week would be quick to point out that Jacoulet is more of a craftsman than a draftsman. Compared with Utamaro and Hokusai, the old masters of print-making's great period (1600-1867), Jacoulet's designs have a long way to go. But he is reviving interest in a vanishing art, and for that, all Japanese patrons of prints could be grateful...
...Derleth, an avid writer of supernatural tales himself. Derleth has brought out upward of a dozen books under the Arkham imprint, all of them dealing with ghostly matters. Among his latest books, under another imprint: Who Knocks?, a Derleth-edited anthology subtitled Twenty Masterpieces of the Spectral for the Connoisseur...
...Fred Harvey system, famed for the fine food with which it has lined the stomachs of Western rail travelers, last week got a new president. Byron Schemerhorn Harvey Jr. is a grandson of the founder. Young (39), well-tailored Mr. Harvey, connoisseur of Indian art and holder of a master's degree in restaurant management from the University of Chicago, succeeded his father, who moved up to the board chairmanship. When M-G-M recently paid tribute to the Harvey system in The Harvey Girls, Byron Harvey was technical adviser, played a small part...
...Unfortunately the vanguard of standardized man was already overrunning England, the last stronghold of the individualist, and his creation . . . was, alas, only transitory. By some mischance not readily accounted for, this type of hat was overlooked by Mr. Churchill, and I have always felt that neglect from such a connoisseur was a blow that no hat could survive...
...Author Waugh lives in an old Gloucestershire manor house with his (second) wife, and four children whom he affects to detest. He is a connoisseur of wines and cigars, wears a bowler, takes the air swinging an old-fashioned cane. He cannot drive a car, shuns the telephone, barely accepts a telegram. Sighs his go-ahead friend Randolph Churchill: "He becomes more old-fashioned . . . every day. His favorite novelist is Trollope. . . . He seeks to live in an oasis...