Word: sangfroid
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...roars up to the porte-cochere of a chateau and out steps-sacrebleu!-it is the terror of Montmartre, the Napoleon of criminology! It is Inspector Clouseau (Peter Sellers) of the Sureté. Fresh from his daring exploits in The Pink Panther, the inspector is a model of sangfroid. Beneath the vigorous mustache, the lips are ironical; beneath the snap-brim felt, the darting eyes see everything-well, everything except the goldfish pond. Splat...
...recently. Concerned, Interior Minister Roger Frey last week called top police officials together and spoke some harsh words. He told them "to orient their essential activities toward their traditional job." "Your action will contribute most to the public peace," Frey upbraided them, "when it is carried out with humanity, sangfroid, tact and courtesy, with unrelenting care for the respect of human beings. This requires not a little urbanity in relations with the public." Will the oldest constabulary in the Western world mend its ways? One man on a beat had a plain reply...
...captain (George Sanders) of the liner Claridon, several days at sea with 1,500 passengers aboard, is not alarmed by the news of the fire, and fortune at first seems to smile on his sangfroid. The blaze is quickly put out. But its heat has fused the safety valve of the No. 3 boiler, which eventually blows its top through third, second and first-class cabins and rips a sizable hole in the side of the ship. The captain orders the lifeboats lowered, and as bulkhead after bulkhead bursts, he makes his desperate calculations: in 50 minutes the Claridon will...
...French, Britain seemed to be exhibiting far more "nervousness" than the Berlin crisis warranted. "The worst thing in the world," said one French official in tones of Gallic superiority, "would be to become alarmist and lose one's sangfroid." As for West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, he regarded the British approach as downright dangerous. "Eliminate the Berlin threat," growled Adenauer, in one private session, his cold-hoarsened voice trembling with anger. "Wipe it out entirely. Then I will talk about something else...
...Claudette Colbert portraying Mary Roberts Rinehart. In his latest drama from real life, I Get Along Without You Very Well, he managed more persuasive casting: Hoagy Carmichael and Walter Winchell playing themselves. The story was a treacly tale about a search for an anonymous lyricist, but Hoagy's sangfroid and Pommery piano made a nice counterpoint to Walter's Winchellisms ("Human interest always has a heart"), some of which were not even in the script. As an ABC publicist explained it: Columnist Winchell at 60 "has no trouble learning his lines, but he prefers to study their meanings...