IN PASSING

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29401, 31 December 1960, Page 3

IN PASSING

To help outsiders to understand the speeches of the President-elect of the United States, Mr John F. Kennedy, “Life” magazine’s international edition is publishing a guide to his accent.. This the writer, Frank B. Gilbreth, describes as a chowder composed of equal parts of the Harvard, Boston, and Cape Cod dialects, without any remaining trace of London School of Economics—a kind of upper-crust Old Yankee, in short. Samples of his style (preferably read aloud): — BAWDY: Consisting of arms, legs and torso. Also in sense of the bawdy pawlitic. CHATTER: A document stating principles, such as the United Nations chatter, ARE FUSS: Where you work. Also in sense of aspiring to high are fuss. BAA: A mahogany-topped brass-railed counter where drinks are served. DATA: Female child. Nixon has two. Candy one. BOUGHT ’EM: Opposite of taup: i.e., “I will stand by our platform from taup to bought ’em.” CANDY: The Presidentelect, Jawn Fitzgerald Candy. EYE DEAR: A thought: i.e., “Our patty is the patty of new eye dears.” BASS STONE: . . . scene of the Bass Stone Tea Patty nearly 200 yeahs ago. ODDLY: Stevenson’s first name.