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...full-bodied and rounded. The wines of '61 will be like Mae West-a Rubens woman to whom one can add nothing; a Bardot wine, if you like-round and appealingly plump." Or, to put it less plumply, "1961 is a black Rolls-Royce complete with a uniformed chauffeur, while last year was just another vulgar convertible...
...aspired to architecture. But in 1934 he was called home to Columbus to take charge of the least promising of the wealthy Miller family's far-flung enterprises: a consistently unprofitable plant that had been built to produce a new kind of diesel engine developed by the family chauffeur. By pressing tirelessly for mechanical perfection of the diesel engine and touting its economy, Miller transmuted this white elephant into a golden goose. Though Cummins' sales declined slightly to $64 million in 1961's first half, the new engines should soon propel the company's earnings...
...morning last week, a big man in a wide-brimmed Panama hat got out of a chauffeur-driven Cadillac and pushed his way through the swinging back door of the eleven-story San Francisco office building that Westerners, half in awe and half in bitterness, used to call "The Capitol of California." As usual, Donald Joseph McKay Russell, 61, president of the Southern Pacific Co.. was hustling to get to work before 8 o'clock. Explained the top man on the world's most flourishing railroad: "It's an old railroad operating man's habit...
...Along the way, Tunisian troops presented arms. When the car reached a French roadblock, a paratrooper flagged down the Lincoln. "Who is this personage?" he demanded. Unimpressed on learning Dag's identity, the private poked his head inside the car, ostensibly looking for weapons. Then he ordered the chauffeur to open the trunk compartment. White with anger, Hammarskjold snapped: "You are probably unaware of the fact that I have diplomatic immunity." Replied the paratrooper: "I have my orders." While a knot of French soldiers grinned their amusement, a paratroop lieutenant asked lazily: "Who is Hammarskjold, anyway...
Deeply impressed was Student Norville, the hard-pressed son of a North Carolina tobacco farmer, who finally hit college and Slosson at the age of 21. Working his way through Michigan ('30) as a headwaiter, a janitor and a chauffeur, Norville was so stimulated by Slosson's lectures that he has wallowed in history ever since. Now senior partner in his own prosperous Chicago law firm. Norville has read "several hundred" history books, from Churchill to Toynbee, and naturally his two daughters have taken Slosson, too. "The fellow was just terrific," says Norville. "With the possible exception...