Word: connoisseurs
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Templer is the perfect picture of a British regular soldier: an austere, stiff-backed autocrat in uniform-and in mufti a bit of a dandy. He lived elegantly in London's Belgravia and became a connoisseur of claret, crystal and ijth century books. But in the company of his old war comrades he could relax. Says one: "He'll bring along an elderly fellow in civilian attire and introduce him to the officers as 'You remember Sergeant So-and-So. He and I fought together at So-and-So.' Sometimes if you happen to mention...
...honorable members, the thin line of frock-coated ushers compromised by kicking shins. They were swept aside as the factions closed, fists waving, drinking glasses hurtling, chair legs thudding on skulls. From his seventh-row plush seat, Red Chief Togliatti, carefully guarded by a Red deputy, watched with a connoisseur's interest. Premier Alcide de Gasperi, 71, in the front benches, prudently retired to safer ground...
...Russia's U.N. Delegate Jacob Malik, a connoisseur of invective, promptly adopted snollygoster (mispronouncing it as snollygaster). It is, said Malik sententiously, "a difficult-to-trans-late English term" applicable to Secretary of State Dean Acheson, both of the U.S. presidential nominees-and Harry Truman. A familiar Russian phrase may be expanded to "bandits, warmongers, profiteers and snollygosters...
...talk back or leave the room during TV commercials. But not earnest, 41-year-old Dick Stark. He sits on the edge of his chair, wide-eyed and alert to every move and inflection of the TV salesman. His interest is professional and his appraisal is that of a connoisseur. For when he is not listening to commercials, Dick Stark is delivering them. He sells Chesterfield cigarettes on TV's Perry Como Show and Gangbusters, Amm-i-dent toothpaste on Danger, Camay soap on radio's Pepper Young's Family. "Television has been good to me," says...
...connoisseur was Orson Welles, who called her "the most exciting woman in the world," cast her as Helen of Troy in a Paris production of his own version of Faust. The show traveled to Germany as An Evening with Orson Welles, was soon being dubbed "an evening with Eartha Kitt." Last year she even got a letter from Winston Churchill. She was singing...