Word: trencherman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...biggest (1,200 employees) and most prosperous of Paris' 820-member couturiers' protective association, Designer Dior, 62, is a shy, balding Norman with a birdlike face and trencherman's paunch. Son of a wealthy chemical manufacturer, he started out to be a diplomat, instead opened a picture gallery, where he helped launch the career of Salvador Dali. Switching to fashion during the Depression, Dior first made his mark as a hat designer. After World War II service as an enlisted man, he was one of Lucien Lelong's top designers when Textile Tycoon Marcel Boussac decided...
...massage, started on Martinis at 1, and capped them with "a bounteous lunch" at 1:30, drank cocktails or sherry from 5 until dinner at 8, "lots of champagne at dinner," then brandy, and worked until 3 or 4 a.m. Wrote Columnist McCormick: "The colonel is a fair trencherman himself, but the Englishman's capacity amazed...
...feed. There were long faces at the Catskill Mountain training camp where Rocky Marciano was getting ready for his fight with Challenger Ezzard Charles. In that green corner of the "Borscht Belt," most men are measured by the size of their appetites. Rocky, ordinarily a first-rate trencherman, was pushing away from the breakfast table after downing only two eggs and a pair of lamb chops. To make matters worse...