Word: mistakenness
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Died. Harold E. (for Elstner) Talbott, 68, energetic, quick-tempered, self-styled (in Who's Who) capitalist and aviation-industry executive, who resigned after 2½ years as Secretary of the Air Force in August 1955 after telling the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations that he had been "mistaken" in writing possible clients of his private firm (Paul B. Mulligan & Co. of New York) on Air Force stationery; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Palm Beach, Fla. Talbott counseled a farewell Pentagon luncheon: "Do right and don't write...
...Chanel has staged a comeback with soft, clinging suits that suppress the bosom ("Madame Chanel doesn't like it-since 30 years, she doesn't like it"). At Lanvin-Castillo, the place where Parisiennes used to go if they wanted to be sure they would not be mistaken for Americans, Designer Antonio Castillo made a hit last month with 180 variations on an Oriental theme...
...Unfortunately," the 70-year-old academy president cried in his high voice at the commencement address, "the general public has the mistaken notion that we of the geisha world are one of the main targets of the current antiprostitution law, and it is up to you. the true geishas, to dispel this conception. The true geisha's life is her art. Study hard and always strive for its perfection." Soon afterward, the school star pupil, vivacious, 19-year-old Mariko, was awarded top prize for the year for having earned some $5,300 in declared income and an estimated...
...insurance company to raise a small loan on his wife's policy. The next evening he was arrested and "positively identified" by two of the insurance company's employees as the man who months earlier had robbed the office at gunpoint of $271. An innocent victim of mistaken identity, Balestrero was booked, fingerprinted, spent a night in jail, had to face suspicion and publicity, raise $5,000 bond, and defend himself as justice took its ponderous course. His wife cracked under the strain, and was placed in an institution. Even so, Balestrero was lucky. Between a mistrial...
...lost a businessman can get in the midst of his own designs and the "apparently sympathetic attention" he gives to his associates. Paul Goodman's Bathers at Westover Pond less successfully describes the frightful misunderstandings of a married couple. The story takes the form of a series of seperate, mistaken images which the two thrust upon each other. Though these psychological forays are real enough by themselves, they don't seem connected. This lacks a continuing life, and isn't really a story...