Word: dinners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rome correspondent, who had been doing the interpreting, turned toward me and fainted flat on the floor. Before I got a shot of Scotch into him, Harry was back in the room, saying: 'Well, it's only 6:15-what are we going to do until dinner...
...jealousy of wasted time. For the same reason, he was a ruthless enemy of small talk-it bored him, and he made little effort to hide the fact. To forestall chitchat, his most effective weapon was the wild-swinging question. Many a correspondent and editor sitting with him at dinner has been hit by some such query as: "Do you think Los Angeles makes any sense?" After a visitation from Luce, one correspondent reported that he was left "intellectually black and blue." Harry's whole life, one editor aptly said, was "a mental chess game...
...opportunist" (what he meant, said Romney, was that Percy "had a good sense of timing"). Next, Barry Goldwater did nothing to help him by declaring that the Governor just might make an acceptable candidate-"if he comes back to the Republican Party." And the morning after his disappointing dinner performance, Romney even overslept until the slugabed hour-for him-of 6:30, was so rattled that he arrived at a G.O.P. breakfast in mismatched pants and coat...
...visit to San Francisco, where Clare Boothe Luce gave a speech to the Commonwealth Club, Harry Luce spent a normal Saturday at their home in Phoenix. He played nine holes of golf, read the papers, attended to some business, and entertained friends at lunch and cocktails before joining a dinner party at the Arizona Biltmore...
Luce was interested in the quest for the historical Jesus. To him, God was a phenomenon to be prodded and investigated as well as prayed to, and nothing fascinated him more than theological speculation and debate. A woman seated next to him at a dinner was once startled when Luce turned and inquired: "What do you think of the resurrection of the body?" His deep interest in religion early gave TIME's Religion section a theological dimension when most of the press was concerned about Saturday church notices...