Word: delight
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Last week the subcommittee called the prize witness of the hearings: William McChesney Martin, chairman of the board of governors of the Federal Reserve System. To the delight of spectators, the Fed's head confessed that he found the intricacies of automobile financing utterly confusing. Chortled Douglas: "You were president of the New York Stock Exchange, an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, and for many years chairman of the board of governors of the Federal Reserve System. If the present practices are confusing to you, the most expert man in the country, what must they be to the average...
There are millions of duffers in televisionland who delight in watching an expert at work - and if the expert muffs or fluffs, so much the better. The latest program with big duffer appeal is Championship Bridge, run weekly on film over 175 ABC stations by Bridge King Charles Goren (TIME cover, Sept. 29, 1958), and most of its ingredients are about as easy in TV production as a lay-down slam...
Unexploded Bomb. "Well, here you are," said General de Gaulle, face to face with a man who like himself had become a cartoonists' delight (see cuts). "We are ready to hear you and to be heard by you." Quicker than a wink, Khrushchev plunked his glasses on his nose, whipped out a thick manuscript. He paid pointed tribute to President de Gaulle as the man who had not "bowed his head to the [German] occupiers." If France and the Soviet had only had a firmer alliance, he said, blandly ignoring his own country's 1939 pact with Hitler...
Died. Bretaigne Windust, 54, Paris-born U.S. theater director who, with such other unknowns as Henry Fonda, James Stewart and Joshua Logan, helped start the University Players and hit the big time after he directed Lynn Fontanne and Alfred Lunt in Robert Sherwood's Idiot's Delight (1936) and in Jean Giradoux's Amphitryon 38 (1937), went on -to stage Life with Father (1939), Arsenic and Old Lace (1941), Finian's Rainbow (1947), and The Great Sebastians (1956); in Manhattan...
...slide in Wall Street affected the world's other stock exchanges? To the delight of foreign investors, the shock has been small. While there was a ripple of selling on some exchanges, it seemed to be over by last week...