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...Ultimate Compliment. By last week, Pamela Mason, sometime actress (The Upturned Glass), authoress (A Lady Possessed), had carved such a successful career on her ad-lib shows with her sharp tongue that Comedian Jack Benny paid her the ultimate compliment: a well-rehearsed part as an "ad-lib" panelist in his TV satire on the subject. The show itself proved mainly that Pamela is no straight player. "I've always had a tendency to talk too much," she concedes. "I may as well enjoy it." That she does...
...would like to compliment Miss Albright on a most capable account of Gertrude Stein's Radcliffe days. It occurred to me that your readers might be interested in some reflections on the Steins by a contemporary, Mr. Lee M. Friedman, the late Boston attorney. In a letter dated Nov. 4th, 1954, he writes...
Harvard University, "because it is a great educational institution, was singled out by the Party as a prime target for infiltration," explained Philbrick, who called this a "back-handed compliment." But the speaker cautioned at some length against condemning a man just because of past membership in a front organization. "There was once a man named Senator McCarthy," he remarked, "for whom there were only good guys and bad guys, and this was a very bad mistake...
...National Basketball Association that his fellow pros already regard him with ungrudging admiration. "He has that ability to hang there in mid-air for a few seconds before making up his mind to shoot or pass," says St. Louis' Cliff Hagan. Rival coaches often pay Baylor the compliment of assigning him a taller man, try to block up the middle on his drives. Baylor has quickly adapted himself to the rough tactics of the pros. Says St. Louis Coach Ed Macauley: "When he's dribbling with his right hand, just watch his left hand. He uses it like...
...characteristic of Berlin that while the rest of the world fretted about its continued existence, West Berliners were agitated by an old-fashioned election campaign. "I have come here to experience the coolness and confidence of Berliners," said Konrad Adenauer, and the old Chancellor's adroit compliment expressed a fact...