Word: joviality
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...Philips release, Szeryng and the London Symphony Orchestra under Alexander Gibson give the first performance of the third concerto since the last documented performance by Paganini 138 years ago. Jovial, pretty and full of technical traps, the Rossini-influenced work sends the solo violin scampering like the hero of some demonic opera bouffe...
...Wrong Note. Jaunty and jovial, Nixon also found time for less weighty matters. He attended a sentimental 75th birthday party for Mamie Eisenhower, where his piano rendition of Happy Birthday sounded only one wrong note. He hosted a retirement party for Douglas Cornell, 65, an Associated Press correspondent who has covered seven Presidents in 43 years of White House assignments. Nixon ribbed his sometimes critical press followers with a backhanded compliment. "When I have to write anything, it's hard work," he said. "That's why I admire newspaper correspondents. You just write off the top of your...
Covering the Mob," claims TIME'S New York-based Correspondent Sandy Smith, "is as safe as covering a Sunday-school picnic." The principal reporter for this week's cover story on "The Mafia at War," towering, jovial Smith has exposed much of organized crime's invisible empire, and in the process has become one of the best-known crime reporters in the nation...
Finally, the group was ushered into the reception room and seated in a circle at little desks to await the Premier's entry. After his formal greeting-and his announcement of a "new page" in Sino-American relations-Chou, for an unexpected If hours, became the jovial host. He offered an old Chinese saying: "What joy it is to bring friends from afar." He added: "In the past, a lot of American friends have been in China. You have made a start here in bringing more friends." Did that mean that Peking would now admit American newsmen? Yes, replied...
...likely that China will go that far yet. But Premier Chou Enlai, who Roderick says remembered him after a lapse of 23 years, had a jovial chat with the journalists. "Mr. Roderick," he said with a smile, "you have opened the door." He promised that more U.S. journalists would be admitted later "in batches." Almost immediately, usually stone-faced officials at Hong Kong's China Travel Service smilingly expressed the hope that other applications to Peking would be successful...