Word: teller
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Turkey. In his 31 years as a Foreign Service officer, Ohio-born Kohler has rarely made headlines. He even looks far more like the bank teller he once was than like the suave, striped-pants stereotype of a professional diplomat; smallish and rumpled, he speaks in a flat Midwestern accent and wears indifferently tailored brown or blue suits. But he is regarded in Washington as a highly competent operator, and his considerable experience with the Russians goes back a long way. He speaks Russian, which has become a prerequisite for the top Moscow job. He was assigned to Moscow...
...Show magazine, seamed old Story teller W. Somerset Maugham, 88, broke a long silence on his only marriage - an eleven-year affair with Interior Decorator Syrie Wellcome. As Maugham tells it in Looking Back, it was a painful episode. Married in New Jersey in 1916 after a two-year love affair - and a year after Syrie bore him a girl, their only child -they hit it off miserably. He found marriage a kind of human bondage, soon was demanding the right "to go and come when I liked." She took two lovers- "I knew them both and had a very...
This, however, was not the opinion of Igor ("Ghighi") Cassini, who as the Hearst chain's "Cholly Knickerbocker" plays chief tale-teller to the jet set, and used to namedrop the Gilberts in his column with insistent frequency. "Ghighi didn't lose a potful," said Gilbert last week. "Well, maybe he did-for him. It was about $30,000." Potful or not, Cassini's losses were big enough to have erased all his happy memories of the days when he enjoyed the expensive hospitality of the Gilberts' Riviera villa. Snapped Ghighi last week: "Nobody expected what...
...Reivers, by William Faulkner. In a fresh, comic book, the sage of Yoknapatawpha County matches Mark Twain as a teller of tall stories, laces his narrative with agreeable anecdotes...
...Reivers, by William Faulkner. In a marvelously comic book, the sage of Yoknapatawpha County matches Mark Twain as a teller of tall stories, laces his narrative with agreeable anecdote...