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Tynan's enthusiasms are as strong as his dislikes. Recently, after he met Greta Garbo for the first time, he wrote: "What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober." Tynan sees little to respect in fellow reviewers. Drama critics, he wrote, can be divided into two groups: "The boozed eulogists at one extreme, at the other the starved, fasting mockers. They are drawn from the long and once respectable ranks of the nearly brilliant and they address themselves . . . to the suburban fortresses of semi-culture...
...Savile Row finery was painted by famed British Portraitist James Gunn (TIME, May 10). Said Tailor: "If we reflect that our British reputation for fine clothes owes a great deal to a natural talent for wearing them properly, this being outworn by a foreigner has a significance to sober the apathetic...
More likely than not this passive attitude stems from the sober University Hall as much as from any Harvard tradition of individuality. For within these gay walls the Rules and Regulations of Harvard College are made with great latitude...
...leaped to his feet to lead the applause for ex-President Herbert Hoover. When a cadet chorus from West Point serenaded him with its version of Once in Love with Amy (amended to "Mamie"), Ike chuckled with delight. But when his turn came to speak, the President was as sober as his words...
Such a greeting was a welcome change for sober-sided Mario Scelba, whose public appearances in the recent past-and his face on newsreel screens-have more often been greeted by Communist-led hisses than by cheers. At the end of his first two months in office, Italy was beginning to feel different about the quiet but resolute onetime Interior Minister now its Prime Minister. The nation as a whole showed no likelihood as yet of echoing the enthusiasm of Caltagirone, but it was beginning to nod in pleased approval at the vigor and efficiency he has injected into...