Word: geniality
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Died. Joseph M. Schenck, 82, ex-chairman of 20th Century-Fox and United Artists, Hollywood's patient, genial master decision maker who spanned cinema history from the silents to wide-screen extravaganzas; of a heart attack; in Beverly Hills. A shrewd and durable Russian immigrant with a talent for bargaining that propelled him from a drugstore in Manhattan's Chinatown to an estimated $100 million in movie earnings, Schenck possessed a way with people that won him the trust of all filmdom, enabled him to function as Hollywood's peacemaker (he settled the long-standing feud between...
...grand chaps. Red Boss Mao Tse-tung took Monty swimming in the Yangtze River (surrounded by 60 nervous lifeguards). Mao's heir apparent, Liu Shao-chi, whose icy demeanor frightens even his colleagues, struck Monty as "a thinker, an intellectual": tough Foreign Minister Chen Yi was "a most genial and pleasant person and has a great sense of humor," and Chou En-lai possessed "a first-class brain...
Shakespeare & Shelters. To the White House also came the eighth visiting head of state this year. He was General Ferik Ibrahim Abboud, who took control of the Sudan-Africa's largest nation-in a bloodless 1958 coup. Abboud, Moslem-born -and English-trained, is a genial man and an avid gardener, who leads his nation on a careful path between East and West. He visited Moscow last summer, attended the recent neutralist conclave in Belgrade. "You have set an example of a country with eight neighbors, all of whom live at peace with you and with each other," said...
...genial grafter, long a strategic, if not an integral part of Massachusetts politics, has come in for an unprecedented amount of New England fire in recent months. Recent Boston newspaper headlines have fully advertised the frequency of corruption in high (and low) places. Even as Rudolph G. Bessette, director of the state Waterways Division, stood trial this week for alleged "sweetheart deals," scandals in two areas came to light. Yesterday the Boston Finance Commission began investigation of charges that there were rigged bids in a proposed $400,000 purchase of new fire engines. At the same time, the BFC also...
...political ethics. McCormack felt that a code of ethics, such as the one presently under consideration by a special state committee, might be more to the point. If political evil were clearly and legally defined, McCormack predicted, there surely would be less corruption. Graft could no longer be genial...