Word: stylistic
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...putting Jack Smith* in a spot that the Sinatras, Comos and Haymeses might well covet, P & G were counting on the fact that he is so unlike them: P & G thinks teen-age fans are not much of a market for Oxydol. No dreamy, draggy stylist, Smith sings with a jaunty bounce, the result of years of having to sound cheerful too early...
Another prose writer whose position is strong is Alexei Tolstoi. He is undoubtedly a distinguished writer and a fine stylist, but he writes mostly about a fairly remote past and has not identified himself with the war. He is now somewhat disliked by a few younger writers for his pomposity and his airs; he is something of an eccentric - writes standing up, for instance, with his manuscript on an inclined chest-high table, like a speaker's rostrum...
Died. John McMullin, 54, chichi adopted son and escort of Cosmopolite Lady Mendl, European feature writer for Vogue until his repatriation in 1940, male stylist (The Well Dressed Man, As Seen By Him); after a heart attack; in San Francisco...
...polished paragraphs are packed with learning, but always readable, full of neat, humorous turns of phrase and thought.' He is easily the stodgy Times's most graceful stylist...
...crowd with audible pep talks to himself in Spanish, with dramatic gestures of disgust when he flubbed a point. But Pancho got a head cold, and in the semifinals a headache; there he came up against Indianapolis' lanky, steady Bill Talbert, 4-F (for diabetes). A sound stylist with good ground strokes and a solid net game, Talbert drove Pancho to distraction and defeat in five long sets...