Word: grosvenors
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...broadcast, Sahl ritually shopped for his daily toy (a $25 Mont Blanc pen, a $5,000 E-type Jaguar), once went out at 3 a.m. into the grey vacuum of the London night just to have a look at the outsized eagle atop the new U.S. embassy in Grosvenor Square. Then, taping his show before an audience full of political rebels and comedians (Lord Boothby, Peter Sellers), Sahl warmed them up with a note on his visit to the House of Commons ("I thought the debates were a little mannered; no one used the mace"), acknowledged his introduction...
...wife Veronica had set aside for return passage to Ireland. When he finally confesses this, Veronica sobs, slams and locks the bedroom door and leaves Ginger to warm his imagination on two quarts of beer. Armed with false courage and the recommendations of a cartoonist friend named Gerry Grosvenor, Ginger applies to the Montreal Tribune to become a Gentleman of the Press. But brrrr-tongued Managing Editor MacGregor, nicknamed Hitler by his staff, believes in starting everyone at the bottom, proofreading the galleys. On his night-shift "galley-slave" wages, Ginger cannot actually support his wife and teen-age daughter...
Hailstones from Home. Meanwhile Gerry Grosvenor has become the other man in Veronica's life, and Ginger tortures himself with erotic fantasies of the pair's love life. Husband and wife are reunited in an episode bordering on burlesque. Answering a call of nature in the entranceway of a fashionable hotel, a boozed-up Ginger is booked for "indecent exposure." Then, in a dankly contemplative mood in his overnight cell, Ginger finally grows up: "A man's life was nobody's fault...
From the first word that a gilded aluminum eagle, its outspread wings spanning 35 ft., was to be perched atop the new five-story U.S. embassy in ever-so-British Grosvenor Square, Londoners were all argument and bird calls of their own. "Blatant monstrosity," cried an M.P. Echoed London's Daily Telegraph: "An element of vulgarity." But by last week, when the fierce Yankee bird was hoisted into place, most of the locals allowed that they would probably learn to live with it, though they may still prefer pigeons. A few were even inclined to agree with the embassy...
...London, he lives in a fashionable Grosvenor Square apartment, walks the first mile to work each day to keep in shape, is picked up by a trailing Bentley for the rest of the trip. He does not like to take work home with him, usually spends his evenings among London's international set. The pace does not seem to faze Loudon. but his attractive wife has an ulcer. Loudon rarely sends letters, believes that firing off cables is a better way to get attention. One of his favorite sayings: "You can never be too long in a cable...