Word: smile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Appearance: Stocky (5 ft. 6 in., about 200 Ibs.), trim, with an old cavalryman's stiff yet colorful swagger, a hard face that creases into an Ike-size smile. "A man of the earth," says the U.S.'s Paratrooper General James Gavin. "Short, pudgy fingers and a lot of brains...
They did not create much of it-only about 50 atoms or one billion-trillionth of an ounce. "Hardly a commercial quantity," said Chemist Fields. Asked why he and his friends went to such trouble, he said with a happy smile: "Well, discovery of a new element is considered a big thing in some circles...
...aunt. Even the bar-girl gets a romantic Irish proposal: "How would you like to be buried with my people?" After many minutes' wait the uproarious caravan pro ceeds on its way, leaving the pleasant feeling that if the Dunfaill stop was a fair sample, God must surely smile on the Irish railways...
...ingrown habit of mocking at perils-including his own-and, more important, because the world already knows well the sorrows and dangers and heroics that went into Great Britain's rise from disaster to victory, and needs no somber reiteration of them. Better, perhaps, to be able to smile now when told that the British collected assagais, ancestral sabers, golf clubs, and Indian Mutiny rifles, and chuckle when reminded that only yesterday the Germans were hatching elaborate plans for kidnapping the Duke of Windsor out of Portugal. For beneath the fun, Fleming makes clear how narrow was the margin...
...salon. Conventtrained Joanne was her only daughter (by husband No. 1), and only passport back to the glittering world of Manhattan society. Nine years ago Joanne, a ripe, 18-year-old beauty, began to see the same dazzling future that her mother saw, began to understand that a radiant smile and a certain passive sophistication (plus society friends) could conquer the social whirl...