Word: circuitous
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Alicia Patterson was a poor little rich girl, the daughter of New York Daily News Founder Joseph Medill Patterson, childless and restless after two divorces, with little to occupy her but New York's nightclub circuit. Harry Guggenheim also was born rich; heir to a mining and minerals fortune, he headed two of his family's multimillion-dollar foundations, served as U.S. Ambassador to Cuba. In 1939, Harry and Alicia were married and set up light housekeeping in a 30-room Norman chateau at Sands Point, Long Island. Within a year, Guggenheim found a novel way of giving...
...still-hopeful Stuart Symington, he turned once again to his routine more-defense-spending speech, but drew only polite applause on the Democratic dinner circuit. One reason was that the Symington personality has not registered on the public with any impact during his presidential campaign. Another: the flights of the U-2 showed U.S. military to be mightier-and Russia weaker-than defense critics had anticipated...
...limelight. Run Run Shaw, tall and thin, is a mixture of Barnum & Bailey and Todd-AO. He willfully holds conferences at 2 a.m., buys and sells talent like cattle. He is the master of the Asian hard sell. When The Brothers Karamazov, starring bald Yul Brynner, played the Shaw circuit, Run Run organized a head-shaving contest with a prize for the shiniest pate, started a teen-age craze for bald heads...
Shock Trouper. In London, upon plugging in his electric guitar. Rock-'n'-Roll Singer Keith Kelly moaned ''Oooh." got all shook up. finally passed out because his sweaty hands had caused a short circuit in the instrument...
...transcontinental auction of paintings and sculptures for the benefit of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art was held in Manhattan's flossy Parke-Bernet Galleries, with the proceedings carried to Dallas, Chicago and Los Angeles by closed-circuit TV. Top price knocked down was $200,000 for Cézanne's familiar Les Pommes, donated by U.S. Ambassador to Belgium William A. M. Burden. But the "sensation of the sale," according to Parke-Bernet, was the $145,000 paid by a New York gallery for Cubist Georges Braque's Composition: The Violin. Donor of the painting...