Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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General James A. Van Fleet, former commander of the U.S. Eighth Army in Korea . . . . . . . . . . . . LL.D...
Word from Portugal. Gruff, heavy-spending Achille Lauro, multimillionaire owner of a huge merchant shipping fleet, staunch friend of the late Benito Mussolini and now the popular mayor of Naples, was the party's nominal head and principal bankroller (about $3,000,000 in contributions). Ex-Professor (of law) Alfredo Covelli, an expert parliamentarian and a good organizer, was secretary-general and real leader of the Monarchists...
...Scelba. Last week the two factions broke apart. Covelli summoned a meeting of the party; Lauro canceled it: Covelli rescheduled it. Thereupon Achille Lauro broke from Covelli, set up a dissident party called the Popular Monarchists. Lauro's principal followers, mostly other shipowners, went along with him ("The fleet has deserted us," cracked Covelli men), and all but one of the Monarchist branches in Naples-seat of Lauro's strength-deserted to the new party...
After two years, Tynan quit the Standard in a huff because the paper refused to stop printing letters criticizing his own acting. (Fleet Streeters also half-jokingly said that he infuriated his boss Lord Beaverbrook at a dinner party by blowing a smoke ring across the table into the Beaver's open mouth.) On Lord Rothermere's Sketch he found the tabloid an incongruous place for his erudite, allusive prose. But his new job on the more highbrow Observer is just the kind of spot that Tynan has wanted ever since Oxford. On the Observer, says...
...treatment has taken only one minute 351/5 seconds (only two-fifths short of the Belmont mile record set by Count Fleet carrying 14 Ibs. less). To do it, the Dancer ran the last quarter in a striking 24 seconds or less...