Word: wits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sending Galbraith as his ambassador to New Delhi, Kennedy deliberately chose a man who could be depended upon to bring to Indian problems his own mixture of sympathy and irony. Kennedy was delighted by Galbraith's wit, effrontery and unabashed pursuit of the unconventional wisdom, and they were now exceptionally good friends. Nor did the President appear to mind Ken's guerrilla warfare against the ikons and taboos of the Department of State. From time to time, the President took pleasure in announcing that Galbraith was the best ambassador...
...grumbles. His adversary is a German, Hardy Kruger, a small humorless cipher whose knowledge of aerodynamics puts everyone's fate in his hands, and well he knows it. Richard Attenborough is flawless as a stuttering, alcoholic navigator, rivaled by Ian Bannen as a bore abristle with saving wit, and Peter Finch as an officer whose code of honor consists mostly of suicidal gestures...
...STEVENSON WIT by Bill Adler. 95 pages. Doub/eday...
...their kids' funny letters for a volume called Letters from Camp, Adler has become the acknowledged "king of nonbooks." His 25 volumes (eight published in 1965 alone) have sold more than 2,000,000 copies and have brought him about $250,000 in royalties and guarantees. The Kennedy Wit alone sold 110,000 copies in hard cover and nearly 1,000,000 in paperback. The Johnson Humor, unsurprisingly, hasn't done terribly well -just under 25,000 copies so far. But the "letters" volumes, particularly Love Letters to the Beatles and Love Letters to the Mets...
...Stevenson Wit, which Adler thought up shortly before Adlai Stevenson died, reminds readers that Stevenson was a singularly lighthearted and amusing man. There is, for example, his rallying call during the 1952 presidential campaign: "Eggheads unite-you have nothing to lose but your yolks!" Not to mention his wry crack after the election: "When I was a boy, I was told that anyone could be President, and I believed it." Or the comment he made in 1960 when he was caught in a traffic jam at the Washington airport as Charles de Gaulle arrived: "It seems my fate is always...