Word: jollyness
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Homeless Archie. Grant has many apes but few friends. In Hollywood-he has a mansion in Beverly Hills-he runs with no pack and is rarely seen at parties or premiéres. "I don't know anyone who has been to Grant's house in the last...
In 1949, Boykin threw a testimonial party for Texas' Sam Rayburn in a Washington hotel, invited just about everybody in the phone book. Winston Churchill cabled his regrets, but 900 others came to sample a score of cases of Scotch and bourbon, along with Quebec salmon, Alabama venison, Montana...
Out in Seattle to make a speech, Tribune Publisher and Owner John Hay Whitney, former U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, accepted his paper's fall from grace with more good humor than his editors had. As a result, he was alert enough to sneak...
'Fine," said his wife. "Go and have a jolly good bash."
The ''jolly good bash" was Soviet Russia's Second International Tchaikovsky Competition, first to be held since 1958, when Louisiana-born Van Cliburn captured the prize-and Russia with it. The "gamble" for gifted young English Pianist John Ogdon, 25, was whether to go into hock and...