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...Avoid blunders. Mathieu recalls how one of his Geneva colleagues, a gentleman of impressive girth, all but broke up a session when he slapped his paunch and solemnly repeated after a woman delegate: "Speaking as a wife and as a devoted mother...
Possessed of a budding paunch and a brand new engineering diploma, young Braden set to work in his father's Chilean copper mine. He was 21 when he saw 19-year-old Maria Humeres del Solar in the box of a Santiago theater. By managing to marry her six months later he set something of a record in overcoming the restrictive protocol of Latin courtship, and the lack of a common language. (Both now speak excellent Spanish and English.) Two of Braden's handiest assets in Latin America have been his greying senora's charm and judgment...
Easing his paunch a trifle. Major General Kreipe came briskly out of his office. He had had a long day at his desk. It was precisely 9:30 p.m. In this gottverdammte Crete-which was not, after all, so gottverdammt after Russia-it was stilt annoying that there should be so much paper work to do; and it was annoying that there was no getting away from the blackout...
Leon Henderson, forced out as Price Boss last December by an angry Congress, is now a happy, healthy civilian in the chips. He has lost much of his paunch, and his once ever-so-sensitive sacroiliac bothers him not at all. Manhattan night-clubbers often see him bounding bull-like in the Henderson version of a rumba. He is his own boss as board chairman of the Research Institute of America (a business economic service); he can say what he wants once a week as radio news commentator for O'Sullivan Rubber Co. ("America's No. 1 Heel...
...York Athletic Club, a swing along the docks to chat with his boys, the feel in his pocket of a horse-choking roll of green backs, careful attention to his fingernails and his bright ties-and above all vast quantities of food to nourish the Ryan paunch. Says contented Joe Ryan: "I like good food of all kinds, and I think my longshoremen want me to have...