Word: talbot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...noon the next day, the French fans had plenty to cheer about. Veteran French Driver Pierre Levegh, in a British Talbot, was leading the field. Just an hour and a quarter before the end of the race, Levegh's Talbot, leading by three laps, burned out a bearing and stalled. Levegh, who had been driving without relief, was so exhausted that he had to be lifted out of his seat. Carried to the roadside, he collapsed, weeping bitterly at his misfortune...
Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury (1830-1903), was first named by Disraeli, headed the Foreign Office four times (15 years). He shrewdly played Russia, Turkey and the Balkan countries off against one another, kept peace in Europe. After Bismarck's retirement (1890), Salisbury was the most influential statesman in Europe. He made the French drop their claim to Egypt, and (as Prime Minister) brought the Boer War to an end. Salisbury was an intellectual, a wit, a student of theology and science, and a tolerant Conservative: "There is much," he said, "which it is highly undesirable...
Unquestionably, the brightest part of the show is, Nita Talbot's portrayal of Gloria, the sexy dumb blonde living in an upstairs apartment. The only way to describe Gloria is to imagine, it possible, a composite of Judy Holiday's Billie Dawn and Tallulah Bankhead. Miss Talbot's deadpan delivery of the brightest lines in the play and her wonderful sense of timing stamp her as the outstanding performer in a capable cast. Anne Jackson as Coralie is light and easy to look at; Hugh Reilly as the sophisticated and suffering mate comes through with the proper nonchalance...
Some scientists are neatness itself, but Professor Talbot H. Waterman works in a wonderful mess. His room at Yale's Osborn Zoological Laboratory is a tangle of wires, tubes, electrical equipment, optical instruments, pipes, tools and gadgets. And all over the place crawl the stars of the show: live horseshoe crabs. Dr. Waterman is trying to find out how arthropods (crabs, insects, etc.) navigate. The Office of Naval Research is so interested that it has him under contract...
...Talbot (France): an elegant two-toned coupe with two perfume and vanity compartments for the ladies. "A composition of . . . voluptuous shapes...