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During the proxy war he pulled many another blooper. In a radio broadcast he charged that President Seiberling had once been booted out of the company by his father, that there had been family shenanigans in a transfer of Seiberling stock. On both counts Lamb was wrong, and SEC forced him to make retractions. To play up his skill as a manager, Lamb bragged that first-quarter earnings for his Air-Way Industries hit 31? per share, but again SEC stepped in, forced him to admit publicly that the figures were before taxes and had not been audited...
...Record. Warren Harding, who was once a newspaper man himself, resumed the conferences but did most of his talking on an off-the-record basis. When an on-the-record blooper brought him into collision with Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes, Harding also clammed up. Thereafter, he demanded that all questions be submitted in writing well in advance, and answered only those he chose. The same technique was used by Calvin Coolidge, who was allergic to direct quotations and usually insisted on having even his indirect quotations attributed to "a White House spokesman." Herbert Hoover also required written questions...
Died. Fred Merkle, 67, oldtime New York Giants first-baseman famed for a pennant-losing blooper in 1908 (see SPORT); in Daytona Beach...
...rough side of his tongue for his U.S. aides, a painful process known as being "Gruentherized." It consists in a detailed itemization of all the unfortunate officer's weaknesses, punctuated by explosive cuss words. Few escape. One sufferer remembers the time Gruenther wheeled on him for some minor blooper and snapped: "Ordinarily you're a pretty smart cookie, but this is the god-damnedest foul-up I've ever seen." Said the officer later: "I felt like falling on my knees and blurting, 'Gee, general, that's the nicest thing you've ever said...
What Makes History. This turned out to be a historic blooper-but the blooper was not immediately apparent. The Associated Press did not put it on the wire for some eight hours, and the New York Times buried it at the bottom of a story. It took the C.I.O.'s Walter Reuther to discover that Charlie Wilson had delivered an insult without parallel to the American workingman...