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...succeeded as a lawyer, newspaper publisher, soldier, Government official and educator. In 1942, at 32 and the father of three, he turned down a commission and enlisted in the Army as a private (a favorite camp story: when on cleanup detail, Private Gray carefully inspected each cigarette butt to determine how Camels were doing). Within seven years after his first camp cleanup detail, he was appointed Secretary of the Army by President Harry S. Truman. An intellectual, liberal Democrat, Gray is a poor target for critics who contend that there was an anti-intellectual basis for the decision that Oppenheimer...
...have a higher regard for his knowledge of philosophy, history and art than for his expertness in politics. "George," says one of them, "is a decent, sentimental fellow, but I've always told him he is the biggest imbecile politically that I ever knew. He just should not butt into politics...
...cigarette cases were designed to fire when the lid was open, exposing what looked like a full pack of cigarettes. But the cigarettes were only butt-length tips; behind them was the mechanism designed to fire a charge of poison into a man's bloodstream by a mere squeeze of the finger at the point where the case was naturally held in proffering a smoke...
...preacher, Howard Butt spends from six to eight weeks a year conducting revivals, filling in for ministers and addressing church groups throughout the country. Riding the airlines from engagement to engagement with a bagful of books, he tries to find time to read. On such Christian junketings, "God's Groceryman," as some of his admirers call him, does not skimp his business duties; he keeps a sharp eye peeled for new merchandising ideas and wastes no time in putting them into practice. "I have to go home and sell a bean once in a while," he says...
...Martin Luther's Reformation," says Layman Butt, -"came through opening the Bible to the common man. Today's reformation must come in opening the ministry to the layman. New Testament Christianity was a lay movement . . . It is a concept that we have lost today...