Word: gallant
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Thirty is supposed to be getting along for a nymph. But somehow, when la belle bebe ripened into what in others might be called maturity, the greatest concern of gallant Gauls was whether Brigitte Bardot herself would mind. "She declared to me that she no longer wants to appear nude on the screen," reported one clearly concerned correspondent. "What a shame! At 40, she could still show everything and reassure her contemporaries." Courage, amis. B.B. herself has said: "This fame that I love, that frightens me, I will do anything to keep and deserve...
Mother Knew Best. MacArthur was said to take after his father, a gallant colonel of the Union Army and later governor general of the Philippines. But the memoirs reveal that he probably owed a lot more to his strong-willed mother, Mary Hardy, who fired him with ambition and lived close to him all her life to see that he did not falter...
...Fitzsimmons, who retired as a trainer last year, bustled off to New Jersey's Monmouth Park to hear the crowd roar "Happy Birthday" and share his 90th cake with 20 great-grandchildren. "It's a lucky thing I had the horse bug," confided the man who trained Gallant Fox and Omaha, Nashua and Bold Ruler, recalling the days when his mother-in-law wanted him to work as a streetcar conductor. "I was sending home more money from the tracks than I could have made on the trolley, but there's not another damn thing I could...
...plays Mirabell, is particularly poor. He has either been miscast, or misdirected. Supposedly the most attractive man in London, a wit and a charmer, he talks like a self-satisfied New England prep school master. Next to him the supposedly boorish Sir Wilfull Witwoud (John Peaks) is a gallant gentleman...
...WILLIAM SCRANTON, even in his losing, sometimes amateurish campaign, was an articulate candidate, appeared gracious and gallant in his final acceptance of defeat. Appearing before the convention after the first ballot had signaled his defeat, Scranton said: "Some of us did not prevail at this convention. But let it be clearly understood that this great Republican Party is our historic house. This is our home. We have no intention of deserting it. We are still Republicans-and not very still ones either. And let the Democratic Party find no comfort in the spirited campaign we have waged within...