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Speaking before the Southern Club of the Business School, White declared, "unions have prevented conditions which breed revolution...
Simple Man. Charles Wilson, like the rest of his breed, is a simple man: a big, enormously strong fellow (6 ft. 2 in., 212 Ibs.) who looks and moves like an old heavyweight fighter lightly disguised by thick glasses and well-cut suits. There is little pretense about him, even as to appearance-he once was a heavyweight club fighter. He devotes himself, 12, 14, 18 hours a day, to business. He is a meat-and-potatoes-and-apple-pie man who smokes big cigars. He flies to "get there faster." Most of his weekends belong to his family...
...most U.S. motorists, hot-rodders are a breed of nerveless nuisances who zip their noisy jalopies in & out of traffic with uncanny skill. But to two young Hollywood publicity men, Robert Lindsay, 27, and Robert ("Pete") Petersen, 24, hot-rodders seemed to be a custom-made target for a new magazine...
...restricted to the critics and the advance guard. The ordinary armchair Englishman is far more likely to prefer Geoffrey Cotterell. There are no great puzzles in Cotterell. A 31-year-old middle-class Englishman, Cotterell writes about other middle-class Englishmen in a manner designed to let the whole breed murmur to themselves: There but for the grace...
...tricksy spirit" of his bidding, a native boy named Filipino, for whom "freedom" would be a chance to explore the fascinating vistas he has glimpsed in old copies of LIFE and Vanity Fair. And the new Prospero has his Caliban, the "freckled whelp" of the island witch, a half-breed named Mario, for whom freedom would mean a chance to murder his master and rape the master's daughter...