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Only a few of the topmost government officials know the precise content of the statement. Even the press last week remained officially unaware of it, for in royal-family matters, the responsible British press acts much like a faithful family retainer-protective, discreet, and only affectionately chiding. But for more than two years, while palace and government have maintained an icy silence, Britain's press has aligned itself solidly in favor of the royal romance. Without affronting palace privacy, it has done its best to keep the public up-to-date on each new development in the case. When...
...stone. The gentleman who finds himself short of funds simply writes a check on his account. The bank honors it (charging interest on the overdraft, providing the gentleman has been reasonable). If he hasn't, he is summoned to the bank managers' paneled chambers for a discreet chat, emerges knowing just how many pounds he may overdraw in the future...
...advance guards of the 700 delegates and 1,200 newspapermen were thronging along with the vacationers into the gleaming city that confronted the distant white crown of Mont Blanc: the French and British discreet and inconspicuous, the Russians discreet and conspicuous, the Americans crewcut, bow-tied and well-scrubbed...
...blunt warning: "I have the uneasy feeling that so-called 'public relations' practices are muzzling and muffling our colleges. We have set out with great zeal to make friends and influence the public, and in so doing we have not only persuaded our professors to be more discreet, we have drugged these same professors into absolute silence . . . It may be quite true that our universities are quiet today because they have been intimidated . . . It is my personal conviction, however, that the real problem of the university today is not so much that fear has stopped it from freedom...
Among fashionable jewelry firms, none is more discreet than Manhattan's Van Cleef & Arpels. The firm's customers and what they buy are private matters. But four months ago, the firm complained publicly about a customer in a way that shook café society and Hollywood; it had received a worthless check from Playboy Robert Schlesinger (TIME, Feb. 21), whose mother is Countess Mona Bismarck, remarried widow of Utilities Tycoon Harrison Williams, and whose father is Henry J. Schlesinger, retired Milwaukee industrialist. Said Van Cleef & Arpels : Schlesinger had given Cinemactress Linda Christian, estranged wife of Cinemactor Tyrone Power...