Word: gentlemanly
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...Zoology. Years ago. both studied at Harvard. ''For us. the transition was easy.'' says Dr. Canet. ''We simply returned to an area we knew.'' But in New Orleans, where 400 refugees are clustered, an architect works in a shipyard, a former gentleman farmer loads milk cans in a dairy, and a lawyer is a $50-a-week warehouse checker. "I have to go on," the lawyer says. "With a family of four, I cannot slip...
...smooth Ambassador to France, Mohammed ben Abdallah Cherkaoui, 40; shy Fatima Zorah picked Prince Moulay Ali el Alaoui, 38, a first cousin and the royal family's shrewdest business brain. Princess Aisha's choice: El Hassan ben Abdelaziz al Yakoubi, 27 (Aisha is 31), a handsome gentleman farmer whose wealthy businessman father is an old friend of the royal family...
...terms that make any economic sense. The magazine field is littered with the bones of recent giants: Collier's (d. 1957 with 4,165,000 circulation), Woman's Home Companion (4,225,000 when it died by the same stroke of the Crowell-Collier ax), Country Gentleman (which perished in 1955 with 2,566,000 circulation). Only last month, Esquire administered the coup de grâce to its sister publication, Coronet, which had a paid circulation of 3,122,628. Some of the newcomers have begun to die off too: The American Gun perished this summer after...
Tall, white-haired Tunner, 55, now a Virginia gentleman farmer, ran the Allied airlift over the hump between India and China in World War II, went on to mesh U.S., French and British aircraft into the effective lift that broke the Red blockade of Berlin, and after that to direct the Korean war air supply shuttle between Japan and Korea...
...sonorous voice and flashy clothes, he could make himself attractive not only to women but to second-rate men who took him for a leader. To Booth, the cause of the South was the cause of gentlemen, and above all the little actor wanted to be recognized as a gentleman-to the very end, when he offered to fight it out with the troop of cavalrymen who surrounded him in a Virginia tobacco barn...