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Paternalism to Philanthropy. As a young businessman, J.D.R. Jr. (as he afterward styled himself-although no one outside the family circle ever addressed him as anything but Mr. Rockefeller) began to show a humanitarianism and sense of managerial responsibility that were new in the cutthroat, turn-of-the-century world of high finance. Accompanied by W. L. Mackenzie King, a bright young labor-relations specialist (later the longtime Prime Minister of Canada), he visited the Colorado Fuel & Iron Co. after a bloody and bitter strike, came away with a strong sympathy for the laboring man and a distaste for company...
...That Tom." Like their father, the O'Neil boys (Son Hugh was killed in World War II) all went to Holy Cross, afterward were encouraged to carve out their own satrapies in General Tire's vast corporate domain. In 1940 "W.O." decided to buy Akron radio station WJW to sound off against the activities of the United Rubber Workers in his plant. When he found he could not blast away without granting equal time to the union, he bought the money-losing station anyway and turned it over to his eldest son, William Michael. In a year...
...adult he stood only 5 ft. 3 in.), D'Annunzio wore his school uniform with such an air of authority that soldiers saluted him. At 19 he was a journalist and cafe ornament in Rome. At 20 he married a lady of noble name, and soon afterward acquired a scalp wound in a saber duel with a literary enemy. Thereafter, his luxuriant chestnut hair fell out. leaving the poet bald-but romantically so. A marginal growth of beard, big, bulging blue eyes and a glorious voice rounded out his romantic panache. Through all this persisted a galloping logorrhea...
...manner-a quick look down for the hand, a look up for the owner, a short shake, and then onward. Behind him came friendly, roly-poly Mme. Nina Petrovna Khrushchev in black astrakhan coat and pillbox hat, her arms full of orchids. The rest of the family trooped in afterward-Daughters Julia, Rada and Elena, Son Sergei and Son-in-Law Alexei Adzhubei, editor of Izvestia. It was the first time since 1896 that a Russian ruler had visited Paris. It turned out that Khrushchev's target was the same as Czar Nicholas II's-Germany...
...prayer book lying open at the Litany of the Saints ("Lord have mercy on us . . ."). On the branches of nearby trees were towels and shirts, a child's sunsuit, some underwear-all hanging lifelessly amid the grey, acrid smoke that curled up from the crater for hours afterward...