Word: liaisons
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...headstrong rule of his own roost, Gleason had a mixed reputation around CBS: "There is only one way to do things." said the voices in the washroom, "the Gleason way." He refused to rehearse, treated scriptwriters with such scorn that one producer claims "we had to hire a liaison man between Gleason and his scriptwriters." Nonetheless, the company thought enough of his talents to agree to pay him $100,000 a year every year from 1957 through 1972. Gleason does not have to work for the money. It is paid to him simply to keep him from working...
...rebelliousness come naturally. His father, the great Russian village poet, Sergei Yesenin, was an ardent early Bolshevik, whose increasing disillusion with Communism was accompanied by a marriage to Dancer Isadora Duncan and a slide into alcoholic and narcotic torpor. His bastard son, Aleksandr Sergeyevich, was the result of a liaison with a Russian writer-translator, Nadezhda Volpin. Shortly after his son's birth, Yesenin slashed his wrists in a Leningrad hotel, wrote his last poem in his blood, then hanged himself...
...Trustee of Radcliffe College, died suddenly at her house in Cambridge Thursday night. She had been a member of the Radcliffe Administration for 21 years and was Dean of the College from 1943 to 1950. Since 1950 she had served as Dean of College Relations and acted as chief liaison officer between the college and its alumnae groups...
Tanks Face Tanks. Next day, while hundreds of West Berliners watched anxiously, tension mounted. Irwin Firestone. Russian-speaking liaison officer on the staff of the Provost Marshal, moved through Checkpoint Charlie in a blue Taunus, escorted by three Jeeps filled with troops wearing bulletproof vests, while tanks idled their engines at the white line that marked the border. "I hope they are not going to start shooting," said a youthful Vopo. After a five-minute trip, Firestone returned, flashed his headlights in a signal, was again escorted by Jeeps to West Berlin...
...immediacy of the Red threat was demonstrated for Taylor last week after the discovery of the savagely mutilated body of Colonel Hoang Thuy Nam, a liaison officer with the International Control Commission who was kidnaped and murdered only a few miles from Saigon (TIME, Oct. 13). Thousands of Vietnamese took to the streets to protest Nam's death. In comfortable Saigon, their demonstration marked the first occasion on which the populace had seemed genuinely aroused...