Word: dobbin
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...Mellon always sits down and names the foals that are scheduled to be born after New Year's at his Virginia estate. It is a larger task than it sounds: there are usually a score or so, and Mellon is not likely to give them naglike names−Dobbin, or Betsy or Mary Sue. Nor, being the aristocrat he is, is he likely to call them anything that sounds vulgar or, God forbid, flashy. No A.J.'s Poppa or Nudie will ever bear the gray and yellow silks of Rokeby Stables. Instead, Mellon chooses names that are close...
...Europe. There, horse meat is welcomed by discriminating continental eaters, who consider it juicier, tastier and more tender than expensive beef. France has more than 1,000 boucheries hippophagiques (horse meat shops); some restaurants in Belgium and Switzerland specialize in horse meat. The taste for steak á la dobbin has not crossed the Channel to Britain, however, where a horse is just a horse, rather than a del-equus...
...office in rural Maidenhead, Insurance Broker John Dobbin opened his London Times last week, scanned the big story from Moscow, and reached apprehensively for a list of his clients. He breathed a sigh of relief. Of the ten British and U.S. diplomats who had been declared persona non grata by the Soviet government, none had insured his stay in Moscow with J. N. Dobbin...
...personal loss that it involves, from the cost of Russian lessons to the tab for the farewell party. For a $210 annual premium, a Western foreign service officer can get the $5,000 persona non grata coverage for two years, the average tour of duty. As the word of Dobbin's diplomatic coverage got around, personnel assigned to the other Iron Curtain capitals have also sent to Maidenhead for P.N.G. policies. To date, Dobbin and his clients have been lucky. Of some 50 diplomats thus insured, only two have collected consolation money...
...Symphony Orchestra toured the country without a conductor after Toscanini's death. Mr. Schenck, who must see himself as a William Dobbin, should not accord the departed Joel Lazar the same rites. The Bach Society Orchestra this year stands in considerable need of a conductor, and one who will be both meticulous and despotic...