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...sterner attributes, have had to do with his eminence and effectiveness today. In the prewar years, when he had the time, he played a notable game of bridge or poker. He liked to cook outdoor meals for his guests. He was, even to his wife, an engaging conversationalist. One woman said that Ike Eisenhower was the handsomest bald man she had ever...
...time finding him. A conscientious, hard working civil servant, adept at answering letters, his days are busy with matters of state (e.g., settling claims for a recent orphanage fire). He passes as few nights as possible with the metropolitan arty crowd; among them he is a good drinker, poor conversationalist. He prefers the talk at the tough bars and quayside pubs...
...happened to the stage line. It's gone. That's what's happened. And in its place, lathes and blow torches left behind, are lined the female counter-part of the pre-war wolf. Pretty? Oh, yes! - Good dancer? By all means! Intelligent? Foxy's the word, son. God conversationalist? She can tell you all about additional allowances...
Thin-lipped, five-starred General Georges Catroux, Fighting French commander in Syria and Lebanon, was the preconference intermediary. Catroux loves France, Siamese cats, fancy bodyguards. He admires De Gaulle, is a brilliant conversationalist and colonial administrator. He was expected this week in Algiers to start early negotiations with Giraud. It was also expected that he might wind up later with a high administrative post, possibly succeeding stubborn Charles Noguès, Resident General of French Morocco. If Giraud and De Gaulle get together, then true progress toward French unity will have been made...
...time Tchelitchew was influenced by Picasso's Rose Period, assumed the leadership of France's Neo-Romantic group. Later he struck out on his own. Tchelitchew works and talks feverishly (he is a superb conversationalist). There seems to be almost no art he cannot master. This is the source of his strength, and his weakness: for, like a jack-of-all-arts, Tchelitchew lacks the profundity that makes a painter great...