Word: mixed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...host, Gunther likes to invite at least 75 people and mix such disparate guests as Foreign Affairs Editor Hamilton Fish Armstrong and Audrey Hepburn, Marlene Dietrich and the Duchess of Windsor. He dotes on introducing the famed to the famed in glowing detail, as if they inhabited far-distant planets. One occasion when Gunther skipped such identification was in presenting Paul Auriol to the Duke of Windsor, who murmured: "Don't I know something about your father?" The glacial reply: "Possibly. He's President of France." (The duke was repaid at the same party when the Adman-Philanthropist...
Even the weekly Literarni Noviny, published by the Union of Czechoslovak Writers, was moved to mix praise of the TIME volume with big-brotherly caution. It ran a reproduction of Richard Florsheim's Night City from the book and commented...
...while he tried fire-eating again, but somehow lost his taste for that, too. Now a sober 22, Andy has sworn off both fire and steel for life, has a humdrum job as a packer in a pastry-mix factory...
Some-times I'm serious, sometimes I horse around. I can mix with Communists and Socialists, Moslems and Christians, revolutionary nationalists and compromising nationalists...
Jackson roused the angry voice of Editor Louis B. Seltzer of Scripps-Howard's Cleveland Press (circ. 313,749). Under the headline THESE THINGS DON'T MIX, the Press urged that Jackson either drop out of the governor's race or 1) quit as political editor and 2) resign from the parole board, on which "the chance to make some extra friends by being extra lenient is just too appealing to pass up." Added the Press: "Trying to make himself look good (as a candidate) when he knows (as a reporter) he can't win, [Jackson...