Word: conversationalist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...They will make any kind of a conversationalist...
General Dwight D. Eisenhower, whose name had just been given to a mountain in Canada (TIME, Jan. 21), was presented with the chance of a conversationalist's lifetime by Senator Edwin C. Johnson, who told him Colorado hoped to honor him the same way. "You have Pikes Peak now," said the General, fielding the opportunity one-handed, "and you want Ike's Peak...
Shorn of his occupational handicaps, Heinz Guderian could pass as a good fellow. He unbends rather more than a high-ranking German officer should before civilians and is a mannerly, affable conversationalist. But he is all Army. In the old days he liked best to sit with fellow officers beer-drinking and shop-talking, especially about the employment of armored force...
...Excellency is a voluble and charming conversationalist, a good friend of the U.S. In Washington he was travelling "incognito, as a private citizen." (He complained that he could not buy new shoes; he had no coupon.) But when he saw President Roosevelt, Rafael Larco Herrera presumably stepped into one of his gaudier personalities...
...sterner attributes, have had to do with his eminence and effectiveness today. In the prewar years, when he had the time, he played a notable game of bridge or poker. He liked to cook outdoor meals for his guests. He was, even to his wife, an engaging conversationalist. One woman said that Ike Eisenhower was the handsomest bald man she had ever...