Word: lytton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there." On the same theme, Mort announced: "President Eisenhower is in charge of everything-whenever Nixon leaves the country." Picking off the mighty and famous, Sahl got the surprise of the week when his angriest foe turned out to be his TV sponsor, California Millionaire Bart Lytton (Lytton Savings & Loan Association). A Kennedy backer.* Lytton simmered in the control booth as Sahl and guests enthusiastically reviewed the merits of Adlai Stevenson on the air, finally barged into the studio and woofed into the microphone that the show was not "a Stevenson rally." Complained Sahl: "I have been accused of being...
...expensive imagination. Lytton had his swimming pool filled in to make room for more people at a party he gave last week at his Holmby Hills mansion, wove among his guests with a microphone obtrusively pinned to his lapel so that his each and every word could be heard throughout the grounds over 39 loudspeakers strapped to the shrubbery...
...dandy is "a Man whose trade, office, and existence consist in the wearing of Clothes." He ignored the dandy's first function-to prove, merely by being himself, the unbridgeable distance between the elite and "the great unwashed" (a phrase used by dandified Politician-Author Edward Bul-wer-Lytton to describe literary critics...
...slyly barbed study that might pass for one of Lytton Strachey's lesser portraits of eminent Victorians. British Author Arthur Calder-Marshall has done the best biography yet of the self-made sage of sex. It is not Author Calder-Marshall's purpose to debunk, but nearness lends disenchantment with a man like Ellis. The heroic side is that, leading from utter weakness, Ellis helped win such a signal victory for the study of sexual deviations as to rob posterity of its need...