Word: hatterer
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...face that seems to rearrange itself for every role he plays. Tall, diffident and no egoist, he is as disciplined as he is dedicated. Most extraordinary aspect of his genius is, in the words of Critic Tynan, "his power to enlarge a role until it fits him, as a hatter will stretch a bowler...
Opening nights of CRIMSON competitions are rather like Mad Hatter tea parties, except, of course, that yards and yards of AP ticker substitute for tea and goodies. Actually, that's a bad metaphor, because it doesn't really describe the comforting and comfortable kind of beery chaos which reigns in the newsroom...
...brings Astaire from his Omaha boyhood (papa was a brewer of Austrian descent) to the pinnacle of popular dancing, a position he has enjoyed for half his life. Astaire fans will be elated to hear that the end of his career is nowhere in sight. Writes the mellowing top-hatter: "What is this age bit that goes on about actors and athletes, anyway? . . . For some years I've been looking for the quitting signal . . . the time when the years would simply show too much, even if they photographed me through three lace curtains . . . It's nice to hear...
...Status Seekers. It was almost like the Mad Hatter's tea party, with the Western Three pouring tea on the Russian dormouse's nose. Seemingly nothing could shake Russia's taciturn Andrei Gromyko. And then at last, at 3:45 p.m., Gromyko, without a flicker of emotion, withdrew his demand that the Germans sit with the Big Four. The three Westerners then agreed to adopt a round table, but with the two German groups sitting apart, at separate tables. How close? Gromyko took six pencils and laid them side by side. "Just this far," he said stolidly...
...load in his close, protective Jewish family. To get his first job at the age of 14, he started one morning in the center of Boston's business district and, methodically seeking out each proprietor, worked his way halfway across town by 4 p.m. when Billy Hand the Hatter put up $3 a week for him to deliver hats. "Any young man who would do what you have done today." said Billy, ''deserves a job." On the Way. When his father started up a junkyard, young Bernie lugged scrap metal, stowed away nickels from...