Word: drollness
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Personality: A passionate adherent to the Foreign Office's "cult of anonymity," bald, grey-eyed Careerman Caccia is a walking file on British policy problems, works quietly and effectively behind scenes, is quick and droll at the conference table. When the Russians accused the British of building a bomber base in postwar Vienna ("It was really only a flivver strip"), Caccia said that he would deliver a case of whisky if they could land a twin-engined plane there, added: "You pay the funeral expenses." The Russians dropped the complaint. Speaks French, German, Italian, Greek and a little Mandarin...
...Droll but proper Boston Lawyer Joseph N. Welch, 65, only star of the Army-McCarthy hearings to emerge an undisputed hero, more recently a TV commentator, was named "Father of the Year" by an amorphous group called the National Father's Day Committee. Patriarch Welch, sire of two sons, reacted with "delighted astonishment...
...Loved Redheads (Lopert; United Artists), a droll British legpull, poses a profound question: Can a comfortably married man - in this case, a slightly stuffy peer with a fine future in the Foreign Office - pull the sheets over his wife's eyes by carrying on with a string of mistresses, and live happily for 30-odd years in his two worlds? Answer: rather...
...most promising and engaging personality on the summer replacement circuit is Johnny Carson, 29-year-old comic of CBS's The Johnny Carson Show (Thurs. 10 p.m., E.D.T.). With a droll sense of humor. Carson never raises his voice, but has an effective way of raising an eyebrow, and he combines a slow double-take with a quick smile. Given good material, he could be irresistibly funny...
...charm and attractivness since her appearance in School for Scandal. To my mind she was the spark which the whole show needed, and every sketch she appeared in was better for it. Had anyone else done "Mogambo Rag" it might have seemed disgusting; from Miss Scott it was droll and decent...