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...Peter Wolf Hires, 32, was named president of Philadelphia's Charles E. Hires Co. (root beer), succeeding E. W. David, who is retiring. Peter, whose father remains board chairman, is the grandson of Pharmacist Charles E. Hires Sr.; who brewed an "herb tea" of roots, bark and herbs, served it hot, and founded the company in 1876. (Later, it was served cold, renamed "root beer" to wean upstate Pennsylvania coal miners away from beer, and became, for a time, the biggest-selling U.S. soft drink.) Young Peter Hires left Haverford College before graduation to drive a company truck, became...
...polishing and shaping the unearthed roots of hardwood trees and bushes, of which cypress and cranberry roots are the best examples. Kobu is officially defined (by A. H. Eaton) as, " a curious, natural wood growth found in trees, usually about the roots . . . once the dead bark is removed the cherished Kobu is revealed, unusual in form, beautiful in grain, often rare in color, and no two ever alike." The Kobu artist then takes the root and begins a long and traditional pattern of hand rubbing and waxing (often with rare and expensive waxes) to bring it to a perfect finish...
...counties. Their purpose, said Lawyer Alston Keith, chairman of the council in Alabama's Dallas County, is "to make it difficult, if not impossible, for any Negro who advocates desegregation to find and hold a job, get credit or renew a mortgage." So far, the council's bark has been worse than its bite, but the bite is taking effect. Examples...
Wagging Tail. A Russian proverb says that if you run with the pack, it is necessary not only to bark but to wag your tail. Andrei Yanuarevich set out to be a tailwagger extraordinary. Tirelessly he lectured and wrote about the "magnificent and profoundly true words" of contemporary Bolshevik leaders. A functionary in the Moscow Law School (though the record later dignified his jobs with grandiose titles), he was detested by the Old Bolshevik jurists. "I cannot stomach him," said Appellate Judge Galkin. "That man is simply a disgusting careerist." In the university he got to know a plump young...
...kind of bark that Joseph Stalin, at that time in the middle of his struggle for power, liked. Three years later Vishinsky was State Prosecutor in a series of trials of former Bolsheviks charged with treason, terrorism and various crimes against the state (i.e., 'Stalin). The technique of confession was now brought to its highest point. Revolutionaries of the toughest fiber yielded easily to Vishinsky's interrogation. "You son of a pig and a bull," he shouted at Bolshevik Theorist Bukharin. In his summing up, he cried: "Crush the accursed vipers . . . foul dogs . . . disgusting villains! We cannot leave...