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...former Yale fencing master visited practice recently to bolster any low spirits. But after watching a few minutes he exclaimed to the group, "Excellent, excellent, no worry here," and strode from the room. But perhaps the starry-eyed freshmen drawn to fencing by Hollywood pirate movies paid a greater compliment to Marion when he confided in a fellow swordsman, "He's better than Errol Flynn...
Vice President Richard Nixon began astounding the Asian mind almost as soon as he arrived in Seoul on his good-will trip through the East. Thousands of Korean children lined the streets to see him driven into town from the city airport, and he returned the compliment by ordering his car stopped time & again, getting out, and giving them flowers taken from his wife's bouquet. When he was driven into Tokyo (where he later rode in a gilded state coach to see the Emperor, and publicly announced that Japanese disarmament had been a U.S. mistake), he repeated...
...created at his suggestion. The logical choice to head the department: Harry Dexter White. To push himself ahead, he flattered his superiors shamelessly. He used to tell his staff members that he learned the trick of flattery as a salesman. He could always sell a man after a compliment, he said. His advice: "You can't pile it on too thick...
About the nicest compliment Savo Radulovic ever got was a letter from a suburban housewife who came to see his paintings in a Philadelphia gallery last week. Before her visit, the lady wrote, her greatest ambition was to have "a mink stole and a sterling silver coffee service." Now, she would rather own a Radulovic...
...their way through as many as nine meals and snacks a day, dutifully reported on them for their papers. No one was more conscious of their influence than the 31 U.S. food companies who set the tables for them, filled them with food, and garnished the meals with compliments. "It is you who took the lumps out of oatmeal," glowed Wilson & Company Inc.'s President James D. Cooney, "and showed the housewife there can be something to a meal besides broiled meat and fried potatoes. You have been responsible for making eating an adventure." Food Columnist Eleanor Richey Johnston...