Word: partner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...North Carolina tobacco farmer, who finally hit college and Slosson at the age of 21. Working his way through Michigan ('30) as a headwaiter, a janitor and a chauffeur, Norville was so stimulated by Slosson's lectures that he has wallowed in history ever since. Now senior partner in his own prosperous Chicago law firm. Norville has read "several hundred" history books, from Churchill to Toynbee, and naturally his two daughters have taken Slosson, too. "The fellow was just terrific," says Norville. "With the possible exception of Will Rogers, he was more interesting than any speaker...
...handle himself agilely in any social situation-from humorously barbed, dinner-party small talk to the more energetic competition of the tennis court. Taylor frequently takes on Bobby Kennedy, has confided to a friend: "We're pretty even. But when they give me a good doubles partner, I usually...
Hokum accretes; Coop plays shady scenes with an oil-slick partner (Michael Wilding) and a blackmailer (Eric Portman). Every five minutes or so, Actress Kerr's lip trembles; Coop says, "We're going home and talk this thing through," and sure enough, they do. It is a fine, sentimental thing to watch Coop walk across a room, long arms held out from his hips, hands curving in toward invisible six-guns, and it is a useful time killer, while the plot boils on, to speculate about how a director might have made Coop a credible villain...
Along the way, there are some arresting scenes: Joe Kennedy, the silent partner in his son's campaign, working quietly and effectively among his friends and associates to bring 80 of New York's 114 convention delegates into camp. Or an elated Dick Nixon, watching the nervous, weary image of Jack Kennedy delivering his acceptance speech on his TV screen and deciding then and there that the television debates would be a pushover: "The Vice President offered the observation that he thought it a poor performance, way over people's heads, too fast. He could take this...
Though Dr. Larson had been active in arranging scientific programs for his district society, it was less ambition than recruitment that started him on the way to A.M.A. leadership. A senior partner in Quain & Ramstad was the state medical society's legislative watchdog. When he retired, he put the arm on Larson. "I volunteered by means of appointment," says Larson. In the Bismarck statehouse, Dr. Larson learned the bitter way about politics: the M.D.s took a crushing defeat when they tried to keep out osteopaths and chiropractors by legislation...