Word: taciturn
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...cover portrait of Bennett Cerf, his head below a truncated M, gives him somewhat the appearance of a horned owl, a symbol of wisdom not inappropriate, though Mr. Cerf is a mite less taciturn...
...succeed himself-in 1962. While Shapp is a wispy, almost Chaplinesque figure, Shafer, son of a Protestant minister, is a craggy-faced, sandy-haired, 6-ft. 2-in. ex-athlete who won nine letters at Allegheny College to go with his Phi Beta Kappa key. Lawyer Shafer is as taciturn as Tycoon Shapp is talkative. Shafer "comes on like Mount Rushmore," as one Pennsylvanian puts it, "and is about as animated...
Irksome though he finds it to be party to such legerdemain, Fannie Mae's taciturn president, J. Stanley Baughman, explains simply: "We do what we have to do." Pittsburgh-born Baughman, an up-through-the-ranks federal careerist since 1933, made his mark among mortgage men by turning the depression-born Home Owners' Loan Corp. from a money loser into a profit maker. Taking over Fannie Mae in 1950, he tightened up loose operating procedures, chopped his staff while the work load doubled, won a reputation as an administrator who could say no without ruffling too many tempers...
...president and operating head stepped James Edward Thomson, 61, a taciturn type who has never sold a share of stock. It made sense that Thomson is an administrator instead of a salesman. Beamed Edward A. Pierce, 92, last survivor of the firm's founding fathers: "I don't know anybody I would pick over that boy as head of our firm...
...Madame Mère, Napoleon's mother, was the most impressive personage on the Napoleonic scene. Tiny, skinny, weasel-eyed and taciturn, she looked like a witch in a fairy tale and held her family under an unshakable spell...