Word: humor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...intellectual rigor and impatience with time wasters gave Luce the reputation, among those who did not know him, of having no sense of humor and ice water in his veins. But neither was the case. Witness the day that he was sitting in the office of a bureau chief when the door burst open and a member of the staff came whooping in, bottle in hand, tripped on the sill and fell full-length in front of the Editor in Chief. The bureau chief explained to his startled boss that the young man was celebrating the birth...
...world; to eyewitness great events; to watch the faces of the poor and the gestures of the proud; to see strange things; to see and be amazed; to see and be instructed." As this language suggests, Luce himself chose the name LIFE and bought out a humor magazine of that name...
...Chinese Communist mission. Over steaming cups of tea, Chou professed to be weary of the negotiations, said that he would like to visit the U.S. "to study your impressive techniques of modern production." Wrote Luce later: "I must record the utter confidence as well as the good humor with which Chou En-lai spoke to me. While he didn't say so in so many words, I had the chilling feeling that he expected soon to be in control of all China. At the end of my stay, I figured he was right. I knew the Marshall mission had failed...
...some watchers, it is all business. They just give the facts, with no frills. Others develop a distinctive line of patter. They try to cheer up stalled motorists with a little humor. "There must be a lot of ladies out tonight," Warren Boggess of San Francisco's KSFO likes to say. "I see cars swerving in and out of traffic lanes." Reporting for New York's WCBS, Bob Richardson and Neal Busch call themselves "Orville" and "Wilbur," their helicopters "help-o-copters." Last month Los Angeles' KABC hired a pair of chatty girls, blonde Kelly Lange...
...think with relief of his easy and sensible management of committees, with admiration of his hilarious and devastating humor in debate, of his soaring eloquence in behalf of his principles and of his down-to-earth, ceaseless labors to make them work. It is no fun to be on the opposite side of a question from him. He throws the whole energy of his being into the advocacy of his views and the support of his friends. But at the end one finds that he has never lost sight of standards and values which transcend the heat of conflict...