Word: vivants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...attractive, wealthy intellectual and bon vivant who zips around in a Mercedes 300 SL sports car and goes in for strenuous sports (skin diving, skiing, brown belt in judo). He favors a far-out wardrobe that includes pastel shirts, trilby hats and green leather overcoats. He is a bachelor, and his fondness for pretty women is no secret. Considering these attributes, the last thing one would expect him to be is a politician, especially in Canada. Yet that is Pierre Elliott Trudeau's most recent profession. At 46, after only three years in Parliament and one year as Minister...
Died Harry Kurnitz, 60, one of Hollywood's most durable and successful screen writers; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. Bon vivant, ladies' man, globetrotter, Kurnitz was never one to bite the hand that paid him. "I write like Pavlov's dog," he said. "I just start typing automatically in the morning. And in 30 years, he cranked out more than 40 scripts, some bad but quite a few good, among them 1944's See Here, Private Hargrove, 1957's Witness for the Prosecution and 1966's How to Steal a Million. Broadway...
...recent cartoon in the Rumanian Communist Party newspaper Scinteia pictured a chubby bon vivant in a homburg slouched in the back seat of a limousine driven by his uniformed chauffeur. The paper's lampoon was propaganda, all right, but this time it was not aimed at the usual effigy of a capitalist boss. Its target was the Communist Party's own fat cats. In Rumania, as in the rest of Eastern Europe these days, the party is working hard to eradicate one of the biggest and most abused privileges perpetuated by Communism's affluent new class...
Died. Sir Malcolm Sargent, 72, Britain's most popular orchestra conductor; of cancer; in London. Known equally as a London bon vivant and baton master, Sargent was lionized in British music circles for four decades. Critics respected the 19th century grandeur that characterized all his work and cheered especially the fioriture he summoned in such choral classics as Handel's Messiah. To audiences, he was "Flash Harry," the impeccably groomed courtier of the orchestra stage, raconteur, and international socialite. His own favorite appearances were at cavernous Royal Albert Hall's immensely popular "prom" annuals, where...
...crossed the line and married Caroline Slidell Perry, daughter of the commodore. He got his membership. In more recent years, there was a good deal of studied superiority directed by the "old" Jewish arrivals toward the newer immigrants. In 1950, a granddaughter of Felix Warburg, the legendary bon vivant, yachtsman, polo player, art collector and philanthropist, married Robert W. Sarnoff; in some quarters, the groom was identified as "the son of that Russian radio...