Word: glumness
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Your Sept. 2 article about Mr. Cozzens is most interesting, but why does he look so glum? Certainly he has much for which to be grateful. If he has achieved so well his desire to be away from people and financial (at least) success, surely this should bring about a bit of a glow to his countenance...
President Pedro Aramburu, the glum, straightforward general who runs Argentina, last week put his plans for rebuilding his country's democracy to the test of elections-and won, but precariously. The government squeaked through to victory in balloting for an assembly that will rewrite the constitution inherited from Dictator Juan Perón, who was overthrown by Aramburu and his fellow officers. Assembly line-up in favor of the constitutional reforms...
Asked by Japanese reporters if friendly association meant that Australia was preparing to ease the sentences of 14 Japanese war criminals, Menzies said genially but uninformatively: "The whole matter is being approached in a most liberal fashion." In the glum pause that followed, Menzies raised his comedian's shaggy eyebrows: "This is a remarkable silence!" A Japanese reporter asked: "Has Australian public opinion reached the point where you may welcome Orientals as temporary or permanent residents?" Said Menzies in cheerful reply: "No; speaking in the broad, there's no such indication...
...kibitzers hardly availed themselves of the opportunities to sound off, for it was a glum spectacle to U.S. fans. Matched against such great U.S. experts as Charles Goren, William Seamon, Mrs.Helen Sobel, the Italians played as if they were invading Carthage. Their team (a Roman magistrate and a utilities' executive, a Naples former professor of literature, a publicist, a banker and an engineer) staged an astonishing show of informative bidding. Their inspired leads were clairvoyant. Some of the tricks in their book even had Bridge Writer Goren wagging his head. A typical hand on which bad luck and poor...
...legalistic Idaho residency, Jeanne and the children of her eleven-year marriage, Heidi, 8, and Alfred Jr., 6, had taken some "out-of-season" skiing lessons and more than one pratfall. Snapped by a Chicago lensman as she headed back to her "home" in New York. Jeanne looked glum, kept mum. A little less reticent was one of her most dashing recent escorts, handsome Investment Scion Anthony Nutting, 36, separated from his wife (last June) and from his No. 2 spot in Britain's Foreign Office (last month) in protest against Anthony Eden's ill-starred Suez adventure...