Word: alec
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Alec Templeton (Sun. 8 p.m., NBC). The blind pianist kids contemporaries, swings symphonies, tames jive...
...Alec Templeton (Sun. 8 p.m., NBC). A summer sub for Charlie McCarthy and Edgar Bergen, the pixyish blind pianist features his musical satires and spontaneous improvisations...
Married. Captain Alec Stratford Cunningham-Reid, 48, swank-loving, smart-alecking Conservative M.P., who in 1938 claimed half of his estranged wife's $400,000 income, later divorced her for adultery, was blasted for "beachcombing in Honolulu" during the blitz as guest of Doris Duke Cromwell; and Angela Williams, daughter of a British Naval Commander; in London...
...patchwork of mildly amusing reminiscences by one of Alec Woollcott's four nieces about her pleasantly eccentric family. Polly, the rebel, wanted one of the dog's bones and was willing to wear the dog's collar and live in his kennel to get it. Lynn Fontanne tried vainly to make an actress of Barbara. Uncle Alec disapproved of his nieces and insulted them, but entertained them with inappropriate magnificence on their rare visits to New York...
...President's breezily informal address to the conferees, in which Mr. Roosevelt cheerfully pointed out that getting along was all a matter of getting together and of liking each other. The very next day Ed Stettinius began heartily backslapping the British and Russians, and would call loudly, "Alec!" and "Andrei!" to the British chief, Sir Alexander Cadogan, and the Russian chief, Andrei Gromyko. Sir Alexander, 59, an urbane, reserved British Foreign Office specialist, winced slightly; Ambassador Gromyko gave a scarcely perceptible shrug. But both bore up bravely under this American jollity, and by week's end even seemed...