Word: waits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This time John Davison Rockefeller Jr. did not have to wait. He doffed his topcoat, jacket and vest, hung them on a hook on the wall facing the mirrors and four chairs, shouldered into a sweater held out by his chauffeur and sat down in Jim Corbett's chair. "Would you please close the door?" he asked. Rockefeller, who will be 83 years old next January, is troubled by drafts. He leaned back in the chair, a smock draped about his stocky frame, for the usual haircut and shampoo. Then he began to ply the barber with questions...
After watching the staid, wellrehearsed, self-satisfied delegates of the Republican Convention, I can hardly wait to cast my very first vote with that motley crew of rowdy Democrats...
...most part, the pilots still on duty at Suez are content to wait and see what the diplomats accomplish. "But," said one of them last week, "one thing is certain. If any of us are arrested for political reasons, we will all down tools...
...acute irritation. It has been slow to make its full contribution to Western defense. Its energetic industry is the despair of its European competitors. And like a poker game at 3 a.m., inter-European trade is getting out of hand because Germans are cornering all the money. But wait until the Germans have to burden themselves with rearming, as we do, said their competitors hopefully, and floods of Volkswagens will no longer swamp world markets...
France, lately in bondage to nine-year-old Poetess Minou Drouet, is currently applauding Belgium's Anne Bodart for a charming book of fables, most of which she wrote when she was 14. She had to wait until she reached a mellow 17 before her work was published in the U.S. (see below). Due in the U.S. early next year is Beau Clown by France's Berthe Grinault, 16, a "strange, curious book" about a professor, a psychopathic killer and a clown. The publisher's publicity agent describes Berthe as "a beautiful child of the earth, both...