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...likes Ike. He has nothing against Taft except the belief that he can't win the election. "Ike has a feeling for people," says Sordoni. "They have a feeling for him. It isn't that way with Taft. I'm sure Taft is one of the ablest men in the country. But I thought Hoover was too. Taft is like Hoover. He says no, then won't take the trouble to sell a man his reasons for saying...
Citation: "We honor one who has turned our defense from the ancient fallacy of the 'mostest men close inside' to the modern theory of the strongest weapons in the hands of the ablest...
Across the aisle from Davis sat Harry Truman's ablest defender, U.S. Solicitor General (and Acting Attorney General) Philip Benjamin Perlman. In appearance, Perlman, 62, was rough where Davis was smooth. His swallow-tailed coat was ill-fitting, and he wore it awkwardly; his heavy features and unruly hair marked him as one of the homeliest men in Washington. But Phil Perlman is a thoroughgoing lawyer. He began studying law while he was a newspaper reporter in Baltimore, was appointed assistant attorney general and secretary of state of Maryland while in his late 203. Maryland's ex-Senator...
...Nance, Packard got one of the ablest salesmen and shrewdest analysts of new markets in U.S. industry. In four years he had built Hotpoint's sales from $20 million to $200 million, made it one of the stiffest competitors of G.E.'s own lines of freezers, refrigerators, stoves, etc. (TIME, Nov. 26). While G.E. welcomed this kind of aggressiveness, Nance ran his show so much like an independent kingdom that his elbows stuck out in G.E.'s hierarchical command. When Nance, by turning down a G.E. executive vice-presidency last year, refused to take his place...
RAYMOND, who died in 1918, was one of the first and ablest cubist sculptors. His powerful, beetle-browed bust of Poet Charles Baudelaire showed that he also had an impressive gift for conventional portraiture...