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...diploma from Hotchkiss, a B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. in art history from Princeton, with a three-year stint as a Marine Corps lieutenant in between to sober him up. The aristocratic, 6-ft. 3-in. Hoving (who often beats traffic by buzzing around town on his motorcycle) is still brash enough to have called Robert Moses' World's Fair Unisphere "a great big heavy clunk" and battled A. & P. Millionaire Huntington Hartford over his desire to encroach on Central Park with a café restaurant...
Seized at Customs. Brash, even impudent, Cerf barreled out to sign up the best authors he could find. With the Depression whittling away at Liveright, other publishers were swooping down on the agents who represented two of Liveright's most famous authors, Eugene O='Neill and Robinson Jeffers. While they haggled, Cerf piled into "a rickety plane," flew to Sea Island, Ga., and signed up O'Neill. Ah, Wilderness! soon became the first major Random House book. "And then," says Cerf brightly, "I took a train to Carmel, Calif., and signed up Jeffers." Shortly after that...
...brash, bright F. (for Francis) Lee Bailey is the hottest criminal lawyer in the U.S. Last month he got a Cleveland jury to acquit Dr. Sam Sheppard of killing his wife; this week comes the sex-tinged murder trial of Dr. Carl Coppolino in New Jersey; after that, the Boston Strangler. Only six years out of law school, Bailey already compares himself to "Clarence" (meaning Darrow), though his monumental self-assurance might not yet convince William Jennings (meaning Bryan...
Even Keith's good looks and aggressive manner turned against him. A Republican leader called him a "smiling Barracuda" in June and the label stuck. Keith couldn't escape the role of the brash subordinate turning against his boss...
Stocks in a Suitcase. Barring near-miracles, Intra's failure seems sure to cost its brash, engaging founder and chairman, Yusif Bedas, 53, control of his $1 billion empire. Born the second son of an Arab schoolteacher in Jerusalem, Bedas fled Palestine when it became Israel in 1948. Rounding up $4,000, the refugee began his Beirut career as a moneychanger in a dingy fourth-floor office, amassed enough capital in three years of flamboyant dealings to start Intra in 1951. To woo his share of the flood of investment money pouring into Lebanon from oil-rich Saudi princes...