Word: maxime
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chemin de fer and blackjack were going full tilt. At one table a gambler toyed with $1,200 worth of chips; hovering over the dice was a Sidney Greenstreet character who, they said, picked up $29,000 at the tables a few weeks ago. Former Light-Heavyweight Champ Joey Maxim was guarding the door. "Can't drink," he mumbled. "I'm watching for hustling broads and big-time gamblers." Cannes? Monte Carlo? Vegas? Not quite. Freeport, in tiny Grand Bahama Island, is not even marked on many maps. Yet Freeport boosters already call it the Riviera...
...Avenue. Actually, their meeting was rich in social comedy of the ironic kind that Cheever simply doesn't deal with or acknowledge when it is there. As Mary tells it, she was working as a sort of trainee-typist in the office of Cheever's literary agent, Maxim Lieber. It is one of the ironies of the time that Cheever, least political of men, should then have been represented by one of the busiest left-wingers of them all, with a stable of New Masses writers...
...went to Miss Hewitt's in Manhattan, 1'Academie Maxim's and the Sorbonne in Paris-and debuted at Newport in 1960. He went to the Royal Naval College, Oxford's Brasenose College, and was a Coldstream Guardsman. Now that, as they say in the set, is "the right sort," and everyone was delighted that pretty Durie Desloge, 22, will marry Briton Roderic lain Bullough, 28, in late May. The couple met in Bangkok last summer, and right now they are in Palm Beach visiting her mother, Durie Malcolm Bersbach Desloge Shevlin, who hit the prints...
...Maxim Gorky Institute of Russian Language and Literature, long a center of Soviet influence in Romania, has been absorbed into the Department of Slavic Languages at Bucharest University...
Instinct for Power. Shannon, 36, is himself a first-generation American; his father, a carpenter, immigrated from Ireland in 1910, settling in Worcester, Mass. As Shannon sees it, the Irish developed a sophistication in politics through their long struggle against their British overlords. Their favorite maxim: "It is better to know the judge than to know the law." In the U.S., they built the political machines that would eventually govern many cities, and they instructed later immigrants in their intricacies. "For the Irish," writes Shannon, "politics was a functioning system of power and not an exercise in moral judgment...