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Mourned Jean Cocteau, poet, dramatist and conversationalist: "Sometimes after dinner with a celebrated group of brilliant minds, the talk in the salon over the coffee is about the high price of butter and eggs. Such a subject does not lend itself to brilliance!" But anxiety focuses on more than carrots and conversation. In the survey, fewer than one-third of all Europeans believe that there exists "a fairly good chance" to avoid a major war within the next 25 to 30 years. Asked further: "Which side [U.S. or Russia] do you think is gaining ground today and which losing ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PLAIN PEOPLE: Europe in the Spring | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

...turn of the century, when she was already middleaged, private commissions from British art patrons to fashion jewelry took her to London. There Novelist Henry James sat through some of her interminable monologues about art, nicknamed her "The Conversationalist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Mrs. Koehler | 11/3/1947 | See Source »

June Allyson found she is the new type of pinup. Editors of 250 college papers, who admire her because she "likes a good book, loves children, and is a good conversationalist," voted her 1947's Most Lovable Movie Actress. Lovable Miss Allyson is now reciprocating by picking the Ail-American College...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Laurel Day | 5/26/1947 | See Source »

...Eugenic Reale. Italian Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, holds the party's foreign portfolio. He is a physician, a brilliant conversationalist and a bon vivant who has the puffy, pouting look of a constipated baby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Caesar with Palm Branch | 5/5/1947 | See Source »

Around his home office, Zinchenko alternates between his London wardrobe and the grey, postmanlike uniform of the Foreign Ministry. He and his pretty wife have attended small parties at A.P. Correspondent Eddy Gilmore's house. There, and at embassy affairs, guests know him as a good conversationalist, a chain smoker, a man who carries his vodka well. But he may drink with a reporter one day, baffle him by ignoring him when in official company the next. Last year he escorted Mrs. Winston Churchill on her Russian tour, impressed her as a nice young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Russian P.R.O. | 9/2/1946 | See Source »

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