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...most. He rounded up a dozen Star staffers, herded them over to the Kansas City Club and up to a comfortably furnished suite numbered 822. A lot of Kansas Citians call 822 "the unofficial capital of Kansas." It is a club-within-a-club with only 36 members, all bigwig Missourians or Kansans. (Harry Truman, an infrequent guest who was regarded by Roberts as a soft touch at its big green poker table, was made an honorary member after he became President...
Andrews likes to hold off-the-record gatherings of opposition bureau chiefs in his apartment on fashionable Crescent Place. There many a Washington bigwig has sat down, drink in hand, to face a quizzing. Says persistent Bert Andrews, who would rather share many facts than miss a few: "Ten guys asking questions are better than one-you all learn more...
...Chamber goes about its main job of luring in new businesses by 1) buttonholing virtually every bigwig who comes to town, and 2) never letting a prospect off the hook. For example, Chamber representatives first approached a Pennsylvania radiator company in 1933 with studies showing how it could make money in Los Angeles. Every year thereafter they came around to elaborate on their inducements. By 1946, some of the company's officers could no longer resist a trip west to look over possible sites. When they found a likely one, the Chamber arranged for them to buy it. Upshot...
Since magnetic readings in the vicinity of the pole are believed to vary widely at different altitudes, and since all U.S. data was obtained from planes, the Canadians have a hunch that the three U.S. poles are really just one fast-stepping pole. Quipped one R.C.A.F. bigwig: "The Americans are always at least two better than...
...morning last week 45 bigwig Southern Californians got a morning newspaper by special messenger. Each copy was gift-wrapped in cellophane, delivered free with the publisher's compliments. The paper was the New York Times, which had left New York at 12:30 that morning, and the stunt was the latest step in Publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger's campaign to make the best U.S. daily a truly national newspaper. The first day's shipment to Los Angeles newsstands (150 copies) sold out by noon; next day the New York Herald Tribune, anxious not to be outpromoted, followed...