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...away from it all. Chris Craft, the General Motors of the powerboat industry, now finds that 70% of its customers who want 28-ft. yachts and more also want and are willing to pay for a whole galaxy of luxury accessories. Among them: refrigerator-freezer, $1,250; four-burner stove with oven and broiler, $365; deluxe hot-water system with mixer faucets and spray hose, $1,210; electrically pumped shower, $450; automatic pilot...
Three fire engines, including a book-and-ladder truck, roared into the quad, but all they found was a lot of smoke and what fireman George Carvahlo called "delayed ignition in the oil burner...
...That made him mayor of New York, and a good job he seemed to be doing too-until he suddenly quit "because of health" to take a less taxing job as Ambassador to Mexico, and people soon after discovered that his aides had been shaking down bookies and oil-burner dealers for $1,500,000. There was no evidence that O'Dwyer was in on the graft, but he could not bring himself to return to Manhattan until ten years later...
...Born Witch Burner." A zealous New Dealer who was born on his father's farm in Clay County, Ala., Hugo Black managed to earn a law degree at the University of Alabama without ever going to college, then became a Birmingham police-court judge and a crack negligence lawyer. In 1926, his Populist fervor persuaded Alabamians to elect him to the U.S. Senate. Aware of his spotty schooling, he spent his first term buried in the Library of Congress reading Aquinas, Aristotle, Herodotus, Locke, Marx, Mill, Montesquieu, Plutarch, Tacitus, Spinoza, Thucydides, Shakespeare, the records of the Constitutional Convention...
...down his first important dissent in favor of a big corporation, inciting T. R. to snarl that the new Justice had less backbone than a banana. The early fruits of Black's appointment were equally bitter. Choleric ex-NRA Administrator Hugh Johnson denounced him as "a born witch burner -narrow, prejudiced, class-conscious." Not only did the New York Herald Tribune storm that he had "not the slightest qualification," but newsmen soon discovered that he had once been a Ku Klux Klansman. Black took to the radio to announce that he had indeed been a Klansman for a short...