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...sport of kings this is not. Instead of the turf at Churchill Downs, the course is in the asphalt parking lot outside Brennan's bar at Marina Del Rey in Los Angeles. And despite his come-from-behind victory, Motown Missile has yet to prove that he deserves to be classed with the legendary Sea Biscuit, a sprinter without peer and the all-time mock thoroughbred turtle...
Nixon now has five regular staff aides. They include former Marine Colonel Jack Brennan, his military aide as President; Private Secretary Nora Vandersommen, who was a White House secretary; Office Secretaries Loie Gant and Jo Anne Miller; and former Marine Sergeant Carl F. Howell, an assistant to Brennan. Rose Mary Woods, Nixon's longtime personal secretary, remains on Nixon's payroll but has worked mostly in Washington while awaiting retirement on a comfortable federal pension. The Nixons also still have Manolo and Fina Sanchez as personal servants. Manolo, his former White House valet, has taken on a strange...
...John Brennan's career at Ford Motor Co. seemed to be a classic American success story. In 31 years with the automaker, Brennan, now 56, rose from unskilled laborer through a variety of sales and administrative posts to chairman of Ford of Switzerland. His jobs involved attendance at endless rounds of lunches and social affairs, most of them bibulous. Consuming more and more liquor on the way up, Brennan became an alcoholic, subject to recurrent blackouts. Finally, five years ago, he took early retirement from Ford. Now he is suing the company for $1.3 million, contending that...
...Brennan tells it, he began drinking seriously in Washington in 1950 while representing Ford. Later, he maintained liaison for Ford at the United Nations, where he put in hours at the delegates' bar, "followed by long martini lunches." Brennan was promoted to higher posts in The Netherlands -which involved more social drinking -Austria, where he started drinking alone, and finally Switzerland. When he at last sought help, Brennan says, he was met in a Zurich hotel room by higher Ford officials who persuaded him-"over a bottle of Johnnie Walker Black Label"-to take early retirement...
Kicked Habit. Ford says that it intends to "defend the suit vigorously"; presumably, it will contend that other executives have operated in the same environment without becoming alcoholics. Brennan's weightiest charge is that, although Ford had helped other alcoholic employees in the U.S. get treatment, he was never even told that such help was available. After a long struggle, Brennan kicked the drinking habit-so successfully that he is now business manager of an alcoholic-treatment center in Lake Orion, near Detroit...