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Laid low by a lump in his neck, ebullient Comic Jackie Gleason, 46, underwent surgery in Manhattan last week, rebounded with rotund resiliency and was soon eating and talking and eating...
Abderrahmane Fares, 50, is chairman of the twelve-man French-Moslem Provisional Executive charged with responsibility for Algeria's administration and the conduct of the referendum (probably in June) in which Algerians are expected to vote overwhelmingly for "independence in cooperation with France." A rotund bon vivant as fluent in French as Arabic, Fares comes from a Berber family (his father was killed fighting with the French army at Verdun in World War I), and at 25 became the first Moslem notary public in Algeria. After the rebellion began in 1954. the French government sent Fares on a lecture...
ALFRED WILLIAM ("Eric") ERICKSON, son of a Swedish engineer, was a kindly, rotund gentleman whose affable manner concealed one of the shrewdest business minds of his day and the same kind of boundless energy that was the hallmark of his friend Teddy Roosevelt. Long before he merged his prospering advertising agency with another to make McCann-Erickson, he had piled up a fortune by investing in products for which few others saw any future. Once, for example, he heard about an unsuccessful roofing material called Congo. He bought the company, painted the material a different color, turned it into...
...Sent to Europe to cover Jackie Kennedy, Lisa cornered Premier Khrushchev for an unenlightening sidewalk chat that was trumpeted as "the only private interview the Russian leader granted during the Vienna stay." Televiewers used to seeing Lisa in her soapy serials blinked as she flung her arms around the rotund Russian, planted a kiss on his cheek and purred: "Nikita Serge-evich, I followed you to Vienna. Now, when will you let me come to Russia?" Replied the startled Khrushchev: "You are welcome there, and if you come, bring your President with...
...Journal of the habit of writing English. With the exception of Mr. Campbell's piece, which is written in an engaging mixture of tough-guy journalese and scholarspeak, all the contributions to the May Journal share an identical set of mannerisms which I take to be the rotund and doggedly impersonal tone of the properly house-broken scholar...