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...that quickly caught his eye was a Dutch tavern scene showing men shooting dice. The President pulled up a chair to study the painting, and remarked that it would be a fine gift for soandso. (Afterward, Kohen loyally insisted that he could not remember the name the President used...
...Enjoyable ... Enjoyable." Last week Bob blew the bugle. At Ike's invitation, he drove up to Eisenhower's Columbia University residence on Morningside Heights. The two breakfasted on honeydew melon, scrambled eggs, rolls and coffee. Afterward, they adjourned to the library, where Taft brought out a unity statement he had prepared for the press. Eisenhower read it over. They discussed it, with Bob writing in some changes and Ike scribbling down others. By the time the newsmen were admitted, the two had finished with politics and were chatting about fishing. "A very enjoyable talk," said Ike. "An enjoyable...
When Broadway Producer Leland Hayward went to a LIFE editorial lunch six months ago he talked about the theater. But afterward he talked even more enthusiastically about his friend Ernest Hemingway's new novel, which he had just read while visiting the author in Cuba. To back up his claims for the book, Hayward sent a spare copy of the manuscript to LIFE'S editors. Result: this week LIFE (circ. 5,339,565) is publishing a special 20-page insert of Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, the first time in the memory of publishers...
Dreams in the Stable. To begin with, and for a long time afterward, Sam, as even his own mother admitted, was "a poor looking object to raise." However, "I felt it my duty." she said, and she did; for, as Sam explained. Jane Clemens was a woman tender as she was brave-the kind who "always warmed the water before drowning the kittens." She was also, as Sam said seriously, a "beautiful spirit'' with a "great heart" and an "enchanted tongue." From her he drew the mother wit and nerve that carried him to success...
...when the big New Deal projects came along he had the experience and the equipment to go after them. He landed $3,000,000 worth of contracts building PWA-financed irrigation canals in Nebraska, often got jobs by bidding for them at cost, figuring that prices would drop enough afterward for him to make a profit (they did). By 1938, he was big enough to handle more than $6,000,000 in contracts to help build Chicago's new subway. When World War II came, says Kiewit, "We really began to roll...