Word: quail
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What - no caviar? Gourmets, restaurateurs and conspicuous consumers may quail at the thought, but the possibility is a real...
Decapitated Goddess. Such extravagant Neiman-Marcus items as a $150,000 necklace and a Doughty & Boehm quail-shaped teapot worth $50,000 escaped the fire undamaged, but about two-thirds of the store's $12 million stock of merchandise was either destroyed or made unsalable by N.M. standards. A $10,000 wooden figurine of Kuan Yin, a Chinese goddess of mercy, was decapitated and a $35,000 sable coat so saturated with smoke that Marcus deemed it uncleanable. "It would be like trying to take the smoke smell out of smoked herring," he said. Much of the less-damaged...
...work-but did have a member on the Wheeling board. Giving Blaw-Knox the order, said Simon, was like "buying an Edsel with a Ford on the board." What did William Steele think of Simon's blast? "Without justification," he said, taking off just enough time from his quail-shooting vacation in Florida...
Jazz KENNY BALL PLAYS FOR THE JET SET (Kapp). The thought of From Russia with Love pounded out in Dixieland style by a sextet of Britons is enough to make purists quail. But the result is surprisingly lively, with a mean banjo taking the balalaika part. Even more surprising is Londonderry Air in shuffle rhythm, and Isle of Capri with a honky-tonk piano intro. Best of all is Alabama Jubilee, a traditional Dixie item done up brown as a hoecake...
...Manhattan apartment on East 66th Street is being renovated, and as Bernard Baruch held court for reporters on his 94th birthday, it seemed like a sound investment. He quit shooting quail two years ago ("I couldn't keep up with the dogs, the birds or the people"), but he still looks hale and hearty, swims two or three times a week, and recently ankled out to inspect the World's Fair. Mighty quick on the uptake, too. When a young newsman asked the crony of Presidents and Prime Ministers whom he considered the greatest...