Word: forlorned
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...chirps the stewardess, although the wing is on fire); because of the recent disasters, the sketch has been retired, but many airlines still use the record during stewardess training. Berman builds his long routines forward and backward from initial jokes, as in his newest piece, which grew around a forlorn conventioner who is afraid that if he loses his name badge, no one will talk...
...with Saki a grand and grisly way with a funny anecdote, as when a decorous lawn party belatedly realizes that the West Indian gardener who lopes by is carrying in his hand not a melon, but the severed head of the cook. Before he is carted off to jail, forlorn Henry decides that the contemporary world is one where virtue and vice are "superseded by Good Public Relations and Bad." Even more catastrophic is his final moment of revelation: "We're all West Indians...
...Forlorn Forays. The week began with comic-opera flourishes. First, Lumumba rounded up two truckloads of soldiers and roared off to Radio Congo in the apparent belief that with a microphone in his hand he could conquer the world. But the United Nations had closed the station to inflammatory broadcasts, and Ghanaian soldiers guarded it with fixed bayonets. "If you try to use force," warned the lieutenant in charge, "I'll have to shoot." Then he turned to Lumumba's trusted aide, General Victor Lundula, and added: ''The first shot will be for you." General Lundula...
...storm, Jackie Kennedy's forlorn hopes for a week or two of secluded vacationing at Hyannisport with her husband were quickly washed overboard. For exactly two days the Democratic presidential nominee devoted him self entirely to the leisurely life - cruising in his father's 52-ft. yacht The Marlin (built in 1930 for Edsel Ford), browsing through Anthony Trollope's novel The American Senator, swimming, napping, and playing in the backyard with Daughter Caroline, 2½. Then the special switch board began to flash like a swarm of fire flies, his appointment book began to fill...
...most re sponsible for the fact that the Orioles are fluttering giddily around the top of the American League: Manager Paul Rapier Richards, 51, a sharp-featured, sharp-thinking Texan with a rare talent for developing young players. Last week, while kids with autograph books were besieging his long-forlorn Orioles in the lobby of Manhattan's Hotel Roosevelt, Richards ordered a breakfast of prune juice, dry cereal and coffee in suite 727-729 and leaned back to talk about the task of building a winner from scratch...