Word: gladwyn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Etonian who won a first class in modern history at Oxford, Sir Gladwyn has a Tudor manor house (Bramfield Hall) in Suffolk, built about 1550 and, as he says, "modernized in 1790." His wife Cynthia is a daughter of the late Sir Saxton Noble. His son Miles is now at Oxford. His daughters, Vanessa (18) and Stella (15), bear the names of the 18th Century ladyloves of Jonathan Swift...
...trailed bowls of fresh pineapple and sherbet. Then followed filet mignon, vegetables, a magnificent baked Alaska, and fruit again. Cracked the U.S.'s Ernest Gross: "I thought the meal was over three times before it was." Asked if it had been a Russian dinner, Britain's Sir Gladwyn Jebb sardonically quipped: "Not Russian-Edwardian. It was one more proof that the Soviet Union is 40 years behind the times...
...Chairman. The following day, in an equally caustic mood, Sir Gladwyn took over the Council presidency for September. He promptly broke through the roadblock set up by Malik. Before the session was 60 seconds old, Britain's Jebb invited South Korea's patient John M. Chang to sit with the Council during its discussion of North Korean aggression. Malik waved for attention, snapped his fingers, called "point of order" twice in English. But Jebb kept eyes on Chang until the Korean was seated at the table. Then Malik got the floor...
...Hubert Miles Gladwyn Jebb, this month's president of the U.N. Security Council, is tall (6 ft. 2 in.), greying (50 years), well-tailored and crisply spoken. He is also a top man in the British Foreign Office hierarchy and a solid man in his country's squirearchy...
...recorded program, lets Stateside newsmen cross-question front-line reporters via short wave and telephone. ABC's United-or Not? (Mon. 10 p.m., E.D.T.) turns newsmen from as many as 20 countries loose on outstanding United Nations' diplomats. Last week, even Britain's urbane Sir Gladwyn Jebb found the drumfire of questions hard to handle. Some he met squarely ("No, I don't think Soviet Russia should be tossed out of the U.N."); some he dodged ("I can't answer questions about Formosa in public...