Word: glamourizer
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...with scratch pens. They sought out new banking customers as their more conservative fathers never would have done, and launched new companies to share in Europe's postwar boom. When Guy & Co. formed a consortium to explore for oil in the Sahara, the Rothschild name added glamour to the venture, and the entire stock issue was snapped up within hours...
...bench, or maybe a spot on the kickoff "suicide squad." Occasionally, a rookie hits it big. But for every one who does, there are many more like Ralph Gu-glielmi, bouncing around four pro clubs in seven years, wishing he had never listened to all that hoopla about glamour and success. The "old pro" may be a cliche, but he is also a fact: only one out of eight rookies wins a starter...
Married. Iva Sergei ("Pat") Voidato-Patcevitch, 63, president of Conde Nast Publications (Vogue, Glamour) and Manhattan Socialite Cheseborough ( Chessy") Amory, 50, his companion at many a charity ball over the past two social seasons; he for the second time, she for the fourth; in Manhattan...
...sponsored countless luncheons and fashion shows, donated "specialties" from her chef and French products to bazaars, opened the embassy to paid tours (benefiting the Salvation Army and Good Will Industries). In addition, indirectly she and the ambassador are responsible for even more thousands of dollars by adding their glamour and prestige to many other charity affairs that would be dreary without them. Washington needs 107 more Nicole Alphands...
...Mike" McLaughlin's brand of bitterness is more Angostura than Angst. "What we love about love," she observes, "is the fever, which marriage puts to bed and cures." In this book of aphorisms, jotted down in the time she can spare from her job as managing editor of Glamour magazine, Authoress McLaughlin impales her prey with the cool detachment of a lepidopterist. A neurotic, according to Neurotic's Notebook, "has perfect vision in one eye, but cannot remember which," and goes through life feeling "like a Christmas shopper who keeps dropping his packages, and it's raining...