Word: smile
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...girls forget to stuff an envelope, they carefully pry it open, insert the literature quickly, sit on the envelope to make it stick again. Yet the whole thing is done in a blithe-spirit fashion. Among Grindle's instructions to volunteer helpers: "It is a happy campaign. Smile and be pleasant. We think that's terribly important-that we not be grim...
...four ballrooms of the Waldorf-Astoria for a banquet in his honor, and piles of gifts, letters and telegrams spilled across his office desks at 452 Madison Avenue. In part, the tributes came because Spellman is a genuinely warm and kindly man, a gregarious and sociable prelate whose gentle smile and sly Irish wit can charm Presidents as well as plumbers. But there was also the respect paid to an administrative genius whose record can be measured in construction bills and concrete growth...
...Steel Chairman Roger Blough is a hard man to get a rise out of. Through John Kennedy's attack on steel, through price-fixing squabbles with the Government and sniping from stockholders and legislators, Blough has steadfastly stuck to the mild manner, bland words and faint smile that have become his trademarks. At his meetings with the press, he gives only perfunctory answers, usually volunteers nothing. Almost everyone was surprised, therefore, when Blough dropped his usual reticence last week at his quarterly press conference and delivered a firm defense of the steel industry's pricing policies. It came...
Besides playlets, Lennon provides teasingly evocative dramatic fragments. Sample: "Roger could visualise Anne in her flowing weddy drag, being wheeled up the aisle, smiling a blessing. He had butterfield in his stomarce as he fastened his bough tie and brushed his hairs. 'I hope I'm doing the right thing,' he thought looking in the mirror. 'Am I good enough for her?' Roger need not have worried because he was. 'Should I have flowers all round the spokes?' said Anne polishing her foot rest. 'Or should I keep it syble...
...back at the beach, later, that I headed a mad scurry of military personnel and civilian war correspondents to get his "short-snorter" signature. Modestly, and with a smile, he gave it most willingly. Only a few of us got it, though, before his aides brushed us aside and got him back on board. I could place no greater value on any man's autograph than that of General MacArthur...