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...does possess a certain warmth that wins respect. He almost always wears a huge smile. But not infrequently, he stops to listen to a complaint or a request; then, with his hand clasping his petitioner's, the smile leaves his face and he listens intently. When the quick tete-a-tete is finished, he moves on and his face lights up once again...
...Wendy Craig). At first Tony to her is pretty much of a bore, although good family, good match, and all. She controls him, even calls him a fool. But Barrett upsets her mastery, undermines her confidence; he irritates because he knows more about wines and paintings, he interrupts a tete a tete, mains a jambes in Tony's study, and his seductive offers of stability and the seductress whom he offers woo Tony away from her. Tony is unimportant, but her pride is up; she must defeat Barrett by getting him back...
...room. The architects are considering dividing the area into alcoves of different sizes, possibly on different levels. Catherine Williston of North House, said, "The area may help us find a more civilized way of dining. In one alcove, a French club could meet; in another, one might have a tete a tete with her boyfriend." Such divisions may help Radcliffe achieve its long-sought goal of intelligent dinner conversation; tete a tetes seem unlikely...
After a jampacked workday that saw him in his office at 7:30 a.m., President Kennedy's personal representative in Berlin, retired Army General Lucius Clay, got away from it all at the German premiere of My Fair Lady, where he seized the opportunity for an intermission tete-a-tete with velvet-clad Ingrid Bergman, whose impresario husband, Lars Schmidt, was the show's producer. Topic of discussion between Ingrid (whose gown Mrs. Clay described as "a Grecian toga cut") and Clay: "only the show," which left German critics digging for superlatives last lavished on the works...
...came after a divorce action by her Member of Parliament husband, who named Aly as corespondent. His second marriage, to Rita Hayworth, involved a round-the-world courtship that was faithfully recorded in newspaper headlines. With his famed charm, his solicitous attentions, and cascades of flowers, telegrams, parties and tete-a-tetes, he laid siege to a notable clutch of beauties, including Gene Tierney, Joan Fontaine, Yvonne de Carlo, Lady Furness, Kim Novak, Merle Oberon and assorted French, Italian and Greek film stars. Said a marquise reminiscently: "Aly could handle more women simultaneously than most men can in a lifetime...