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...moment the press was speechless. Then one reporter mumbled: "You're carrying on a bit much, aren't you mate?" At that, Joan and husband stormed out, followed by the frantic restaurant manager. He had spent most of the day whipping up a special fish sauce for Joan that he said was "comparable to the peach Melba, the tribute to that other Australian soprano, Dame Nellie Melba." The manager fell to his knees on the sidewalk, kissed Joan's hand and begged her to return. She went back after some hesitation, then tried to laugh away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reporters: The Diva & the Orangutans | 9/10/1965 | See Source »

...moment Auctioneer Chance was speechless. Then: "What...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Market: Son of Rembrandt | 3/26/1965 | See Source »

...once, Ev Dirksen was speechless. Leaving the first powwow of Illinois' Republican Convention delegates in suburban Chicago last week, he plowed head down through a crowd of newsmen, got into a car and drove off without saying a word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Illinois: What Upset Ev | 6/26/1964 | See Source »

...before, but he instituted the New Economic Policy, a right turn toward partial capitalism that gave groaning Russia a brief respite. It was to be among Lenin's last official acts, for in 1922 he was incapacitated by a series of strokes that left him paralyzed and partly speechless until he died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Communists: The Battle over the Tomb | 4/24/1964 | See Source »

...wife and mother, I'm thrilled with "easy on, easy off" bread wrappers, ecstatic over the tornado in my liquid cleaner and speechless every time the giant jumps out of my washer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 27, 1963 | 12/27/1963 | See Source »

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