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...Ambiance. The conference's first week was hopeful but unexciting. Under the bored and stony stares of Charlemagne and Saint Louis in the Luxembourg Palace, orators and translators droned on verbosely, while temporary chairman Georges Bidault listened politely from the sun flooded rostrum. Prime Minister Attlee did crossword puzzles. Molotov suffered in silence, his hands folded in his lap. Some delegates slept. Even the Gobelin-hung bar was quiet. Americans favored champagne; in the absence of vodka, the Russians went in for cognac. But, sighed the bartender: "Il n'y a pas d'ambiance-the atmosphere...
...publisher of the dignified New York Times, once complained to an aide: "The only way I can get anything in this paper is to write a letter to the editor." His jest was almost but not literally true. Once, for example, he and Editor Charles Merz collaborated on a crossword puzzle that got into print. In last week's Sunday magazine section the boss scored again-with a quatrain modestly signed "A.H.S...
During the season Mel spends many of his evenings talking shop - often at Toots Shor's, 51st Street restaurant in Manhattan. He is a movie, crossword puzzle and gin rummy addict, and hankers for the better eating places that specialize in bouillabaisse and oyster Rockefeller. He has also been known to fritter away a few dollars, between seasons, on the ponies...
...simply added a white embroidered collar. Her habits and mind were simple and domestic. Outside "Miss Hattie's" door in the mahogany-&-marble Senate Office Building stood a little row of milk bottles. While her male colleagues bellowed and fumed and passed fateful legislation, she sat and worked crossword puzzles; often just sat listening, for hours. When she voted, her voice was hardly audible. In her 13 years she made fewer than 15 speeches...
...most interested in. Example: readers of the News, which missed one day's publication, wanted to know: How is Churchill? What's going on in the war? What did Alley Oop (a comic strip character) do today? What's the answer to Saturday's crossword puzzle? Who won the first race at Tropical? One reader - a woman - wanted all the News's editorials read to her over the phone...