Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After her retirement, Edna Chase kept a grandmotherly eye on Vogue, often dropped into the office on Lexington Avenue for a quiet lunch and a worried chat about the fading numbers of ladies and gentlemen. Last month, a handsome and regal lady who was about to celebrate her 80th birthday, she slipped south to Florida for a vacation. There last week she died of a heart attack. The news reached Vogue as staffers were handing around the latest postcard from their editor emeritus: "I think of all you busy Vogueites," said the neat hand, "and envy you your full days...
...Over an eye-glazing bowl of punch based on a Spanish drink called "Blood" * Beaumont beat out his 20th Century Folk Mass last week for the benefit of his church servers, who clustered around the vicarage piano. Designed for use by a small orchestra, or combo, the Mass sometimes sounds romantic echoes of Sigmund Romberg (the Credo), sometimes switches to a "beguine tempo" (Kyrie, Agnus Dei), sometimes soars in the harmonies of the Negro spiritual ("0 praise God in his ho-li-ness") or thumps with a syncopated bass ("We praise Thee, we bless Thee we praise Thee, we bless...
Moreover, Nixon kept a weather eye on U.S. diplomatic and information people in African countries. He made no bones about the fact that some of them did not seem to live up to his standards. After a meeting with one high-ranking officer he complained: "How can we expect to get things done over here with cornballs like that?" Too many U.S. diplomats, he decided, were putting too much stock in pomp and form, too little in the kind of U.S. they were supposed to represent...
Raider Louis Wolfson, who temporarily retired from the public eye after his unsuccessful attempt to gain control of giant Montgomery Ward (TIME, Oct. 8), was on the prowl again last week. He was casting a covetous eye on ailing American Motors Corp. ($2,994,613 loss in first quarter of fiscal 1957). Wolfson announced that he and his family have increased their holdings in the company by 110,000 shares to 350,000, giving him the largest single block, though only 6%, of the 5,670,430 shares outstanding...
...begin with, Huston picked players who were not only presold to the public but pre-studied in their parts as well. Deborah Kerr played a nun in Black Narcissus ; Robert Mitchum has done no fewer than four tours of duty as a cinema serviceman. Under Huston's sharp eye, they both give good standard performances. Actress Kerr, whose makeup man went a bit too far with the cloistral pallor, sometimes looks as if she had cut her veins as well as her hair; but Actor Mitchum, even though as usual he does nothing but slob around the screen...