Word: raconteuring
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Alexander Woollcott's broadcast offered an illuminating glimpse of the oldtime Hotel Algonquin intellect at grips with the new world war. Puffed up with self-deprecation, mellow Mr. Woollcott could not deflate himself as a hero without triumphing once more as a raconteur. He told how he had "pricked up these old ears" in a London police station at the accent of the boy ahead of him, found he was 21-year-old Steve Traski from Jersey City, who had shipped three times out of Halifax, been torpedoed twice before he finally got to London to enlist with...
...attack of shingles, Dr. Hugh Hampton Young of Johns Hopkins might never have written his autobiography. And that would have been a pity. For, besides being the foremost urologist in the U. S., 70-year-old Dr. Young is a raconteur of parts. His memoirs, Hugh Young: A Surgeon's Autobiography (Harcourt, Brace; $5), bursting with scientific facts and exquisite drawings of urologic diseases and operations, make a lusty, gusty book...
After a patient wait, death came last week to Hans Zinsser, bacteriologist, physician, philosopher, poet, ironist, historian, raconteur. At 61, he died of chronic leukemia, a slow-moving, mysterious disease of the blood for which there is no known cure...
...Michael O'Dwyer followed Sir Percy with an impromptu 15-minute speech. Now mellowed into a famed raconteur, he turned his sarcastic Irish wit on the Indian Nationalists, whom he still despised. He delighted his dignified (and conservative) audience with anecdotes...
...questionable, endeavor is included among the remaining vocations. Manufacturing, education, insurance and merchandising draw over five from the class. The usual amount of dry wit is present in one man's statement that he wants to be a beach-comber, and author's that he intends to become a "raconteur"-Dwight Fiske...