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...apathy, gaiety and shrewdness." Fielding can be rough on Americans, too. He lashes out at "hog-mannered U.S. drugstore-cowboys," warns U.S. matrons with chassis by Hokinson: "Don't take slacks or shorts, unless you have a figure like Gypsy Rose Lee's. On fat or plump women, Europeans hate...
...Orient, Yardley happily found nothing inscrutable about the old China poker hands. Around the table in the Chungking Hostel, he recalls, there were such worldly adversaries as Herr Neilson, the Generalissimo's antiaircraft adviser, "a good-natured writer from TIME Magazine" named Teddy White, and Mickey, a plump, cigar-smoking woman who turned out to be Writer Emily Hahn, in China to do the history of the three Soong sisters. The place was full of poker patsies, and Yardley put to profitable use the carefully calculated rules that make his book a primer for all serious players. A sampling...
...channel, or contented themselves with remarking that the speaker had an interesting face." Yet Christ is currently much in evidence on British TV. Most startling example: a Passion play in which Christ is a young man with an Elvis Presley haircut, scuffed loafers and worn jeans. The Virgin Mary, plump and nondescript, was the British version of anybody's mum. Pontius Pilate was suave and courteously detached in a well-pressed lounge suit, nonchalantly lighted a cigarette after he signed Christ's death warrant. The Roman soldiers were simple types in British battle dress...
...held a decisive meeting, and the dutiful Deputies sensed that they were to be called on to ratify changes in what the comrades are pleased to call the vanguard of the dictatorship of the Soviet proletariat. Moscow's talk centered around the premiership. Marshal Bulganin. the goateed. pleasantly plump palace commissar who had held the job for the last three years, had hesitated too long about supporting Khrushchev in last June's party leadership struggle and had received far fewer nominations than other Politburocrats for last month's Supreme Soviet elections. Now Bulganin took a seat...
White settlers of the Salisbury area were comfortably settled on the veranda of the picturesque Mazoe Hotel in suburban Mazoe sipping their customary sundowners (brandy and soda). Suddenly glasses were put down and eyebrows raised as their lily-white privacy was invaded by plump, brown-skinned Jagannath Rao, the press attache of the Indian diplomatic mission, who had brought his wife, two children and a friend into the lounge for a cup of tea. Before they could be served, the hotel manager bustled up, asked them to leave. Rao protested that he was a foreign diplomat, but the manager snapped...