Word: nice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...infinite patience. He has sacrificed his own life completely for the revolution." Jawaharlal Nehru adds: "Extraordinarily likable and friendly ... a man of integrity desiring peace." And an American, who worked with Ho against the Japanese in World War II, wraps up the encomium: "Ho was a very nice guy." Ho Chi Minh is a wispy man (100 Ibs.), mild and slow-spoken, and disarmingly forthright. He is a man who sits on the edges of chairs, his hands folded meekly in his lap. "You must give the people an example of poverty, misery and denial," he sometimes adjures his disciples...
Last week the New York Journal of Commerce reported that more trouble was blowing up for "Ari" Onassis. Ship Owner and Broker Spiridon Katapodis had filed a sworn deposition with the British consulate at Nice charging that Onassis had landed the contract only by paying high Saudi Arabian officials more than $1,000,000. Katapodis, who said that he was supposed to get $1,000,000 himself for being Onassis' go-between in the deal, announced in Paris this week that he was going to sue Onassis for reneging: Onassis, he claimed, signed the agreement with...
...leter, or leave Pitt. He told me all right, stay out if you want, and if you make your letter, I'll buy you a suit of clothes'." Jordan won three varsity letters and captained Glen S. (Pop) Warner's last Pitt team in 1923. "It was a pretty nice suit of clothes," he recalls...
Died. Henri Matisse, 84, modern art's greatest colorist; of a heart attack; in Nice...
...Carson is a very slick comedian; his expression, as he muses on the possibilities of a round bed, could hardly have been improved on by W. C. Fields. Holliday and Lemmon, after only two pictures together, must be acknowledged as the smoothest new comedy team in show business. A nice bit: Holliday, slopping together an amateur Martini for Carson, says anxiously, "I probably bruised the gin." Carson looks. "Not a mark on it," he says heartily...