Word: witnessed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Personality: Reticent, honest, quick-witted, forthright and cool, he is smallish (5 ft. 7½ in.), a conservative dresser and the possessor of a deep bass voice and a dry, often penetrating wit. Unostentatious, he drives to his Pittsburgh office from his home in Sewickley, Pa. in a 1954 two-door Ford, likes to watch baseball games. Hobbies: golf, fishing and photographing his grandchildren. Bargainer Stephens' definition of the requirements of his job: "To be a skilled negotiator takes character, integrity, quick wit, a keen mind, the ability to speak as the moment requires−with humor, sincerity, pathos...
Allen has nothing to say about his own brand of wit, and he curiously neglects such TV headliners as Lucille Ball and Danny Thomas. But his assessments of the 16 funnymen he does deal with are often pungent and always well lubricated with punch lines from their repertories...
...Britain's hectic inflationary boom as sternly as its danger demanded. Gratified by the boom, relieved to be free of austerity, taking credit for the prosperity, the Tories have hesitated to air their anxieties too loudly. "This is the government that whispered 'Wolf!'" said one London wit. But last week, in the midst of London's gayest and most expensive social season since the war, Chancellor of the Exchequer Harold Macmillan cried it aloud...
...season with festive intentions but pretty limp results. With but eight people in the cast, it is an intimate revue with a vengeance; and with its faces so quickly familiar and its fandangos so modestly scaled, it stands in urgent need of witty sketches and catchy tunes. But the wit is uncomfortably sporadic and Vernon Duke's show tunes sound remarkably alike. Best thing in the revue is Comedienne Charlotte Rae, who is herself at her best in a pair of screwy madrigal numbers. There are two or three entertaining skits, but the bulk of them are either dead...
...Seidel clothes his single small joke in pretentious language. While the only image of David Ferry's The Late Hour Poem is more ludicrous than striking, Nina Castelli's The Coquette concludes, with some truth for the poem, "What use to anyone is it,/My cutting virtue, and my wit?" The rest of the poetry consists of two poems by Robert Johnston. Though he shows he has a neat way with words, Johnston seems mostly to be fooling with the words, exercising them and posturing them around the absence of a feeling...