Word: mets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Beerbohm, and about these people he tells some of his most entertaining anecdotes. One day, Pascal--the Hungarian producer who procured the screen rights to all of Bernard Shaw's plays--said to Behrman, "Sahm, you know I ahm illegitimate descendant Talleyrand." Two weeks later, Behrman met Pascal again and the producer said, "Sahm, did I tell you I ahm illegitimate descendant Metternich?" Recounting these incidents in an unpublished New Yorker profile of Pascal, Behrman wrote, "Whatever differences may have separated the Congress of Vienna, it was united on at least one thing: to have some share, however remote...
Duveen, a history of the British house of art dealers, is considered one of Behrman's finest journalistic accomplishments. The Duveens, however, are not among its admirers. Lady Duveen--whom he has never met--spits, Behrman says, whenever she hears his name. "Of course," he adds, "she may have a glandular condition...
...YORK, March 5--In a mighty meeting of commercial minds, three blushing Harvardmen met a movie star today. Witnesses to the event included a Life magazine reporter who forgot his notebook, Mrs. Bob Considine, who is the wife of Mr. Hearst's expert on the human dilemma, and a number of press agents...
Since labs, studies, and illness cut into the team's travelling squad, the Freshmen were something less than spectacular on the road. They soundly defeated Exeter at home, 5 to 0, but when they met the same man team in an away contest, they lost...
...torment and sometimes torments his friends. He finds himself in North Africa for a vacation, an opportunity to think about his recent conversion and about his new status of widower. Yet he is already sitting in judgment. In a bar he is telling a Belgian prostitute he has just met that "making men happy" is wrong. A Catholic too, she replies: "You are obviously a convert. They are always so scrupulous...