Word: notebooks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hands, broke out in a blotchy rash, spoke in a voice so constricted that it was barely audible. "I can't remember. I can't remember," she said, apologizing to Director Huston for a series of fluffs. She might well have written again in her dressing-room notebook what she wrote earlier this year during the filming of Let's Make Love: "What am I afraid of? Why am I so afraid? Do I think I can't act? I know I can act, but I am afraid. I am afraid and I should...
Cost & Cure. For so French a painter, it is ironic that Normandy-born Poussin did almost all his work outside his native land. After studying anatomy in a Paris hospital, he set out for Rome, where he filled notebook after notebook with sketches of ancient ruins and nearly starved to death. Once, when the Vatican was at odds with Cardinal Richelieu, papal troops tried to beat the Frenchman up. He caught syphilis, and partly to avoid further temptation, married the daughter of the pastry cook who nursed him back to health. The disease left its mark-trembling hands and eventual...
...restless mind was as busy as a hummingbird. From the sprawling old ranch house came the clatter of typewriter keys, as a pretty secretary tapped out a just-dictated letter; when Johnson called her through a handy squawk box, the secretary would return, her shorthand notebook and pencil at the ready. From time to time she handed Johnson a convenient extension telephone, with an urgent call from Washington or some other distant spot. Without a telephone at arm's reach, Senator Johnson is as wretched as a squirrel without a tree...
...tobacco sponsors) until lights out at 10:30. Gray has few cultural interests (his favorite relaxation: doing jigsaw puzzles), seldom attends church (he is a Methodist), sees perhaps one movie a year. His chief outside-work interest is the farm, where he likes to wander on weekends, carrying a notebook with the vital statistics of his 415 Guernseys and calling them by name?"Emma, Brenda, Belle, Charming." Gray is a millionaire; besides his $160,000 annual salary, he has his father's bequest of 55,000 shares of Reynolds stock (then worth about $3,000,000), now owns a total...
Green never learned to drive a car, still walks more than a mile to and from work when the weather is good. One of Washington's busiest partygoers, he keeps meticulous track of his engagements in a black notebook. Once, a hostess saw him leafing through the book, asked fondly: "Are you checking to find out where you go next?" Replied Green: "I'm checking to see where...