Word: raconteuring
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Died. Ferenc Molnar, 74, playwright (The Swan, Liliom, The Guardsman, The Play's The Thing, and 38 others), novelist and raconteur; in Manhattan. A practicing newsman in his native Budapest for 22 years (until 1918), chipper, monocled Molnar Was sometimes called the "Hungarian Moliere." A Jew, he fled the Nazis in 1940, became a U.S. citizen. Recently, Communist-dominated Hungary labeled him a "western imperialist," banned his books, although Molnar avoided social and political comment and strove only for sophisticated entertainment. The successful playwright, he once said, must do "some swindling . . . Sometimes it is just cheating your conscience...
Died. Julius Lulley, 58, Washington restaurateur, raconteur, wit, who rose from apprentice waiter to owner of Harvey's, one of the capital's oldest and best restaurants; of cancer; in Washington...
...F.C.C. had previously declared that Columbia makes color better than R.C.A., so the highest court's decision merely wrote judicious conclusion to what that celebrated television critic and raconteur John Crosby has described as a battle of the titans to determine which will ultimately control all mass entertainment in these United States...
...addition to his reputation as a first-class arnica and iodine man, Fadden is a highly engaging raconteur. During his travels around professional circuits, he has rubbed elbows of great and near-great athletes (it was Fadden who treated Ted Williams' injury last summer). He has a ready stock of stories which he can relate much in the manner of Ring Lardner's rookie. Not only that, but there was not one major injury during the past football season. Good man to have around...
...Historians. The Hinge of Fate covers the period December 1941-June 1943. Already it is clear that more than any other individual thus far-whether participant, recorder, or pure raconteur-Writer Churchill has given historians their richest cud to chew. No man, not even F.D.R. or Stalin, was so central to events or so frequently determined their course. If his history is not the last word on the events it describes, it is certainly the best foundation now in sight for the last word when it is written...