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...unauthorized history of his communications empire. Written by New York Times Financial Columnist Robert Metz, it begins with the takeover of the small new network by the 27-year-old Paley, who arrived in New York from Philadelphia in 1928, bolstered by his father's cigar-manufacturing fortune. The book then meanders repetitiously through the company's long but successful drive to overtake giant NBC. Among Metz's claims...
...mailbox remains the private property of the individual," says Postal Service Lawyer Jack T. DiLorenzo. "But we do have some control." Yes, indeed. That control began shortly after the 1896 start of rural free delivery. By 1899 Postmaster General Charles Smith was already grousing that "tomato cans, cigar boxes, drainage pipes upended, soap boxes and even sections of discarded stovepipes were used as mailboxes." There followed three quarters of a century of regulation and regularization. Now the owner of a rural mailbox must place it at a height convenient to the carrier, and the box he buys must...
...burgeoned over a span of some two years into a corpus of schemes. As best the principals remember, the idea first emerged in the late spring or early summer of 1960 as a simple, even simple-minded plot to poison Castro's food or slip him a poisoned cigar. By some accounts, the notion originated with a senior officer in the agency's Western Hemisphere division whose ideas interested Colonel Sheffield Edwards, director of the agency's Office of Security. Edwards passed the idea on to Deputy Director for Plans Richard M. Bissell...
...same vein. Michel has painful difficulty marketing his film--his coarse and obese producer, between puts on a cheap cigar, urges him to spice it up with a few deaths, since no one is interested in live Jews these days. Returning from his interview at the studio. Michel rescues a young student who has been beaten by the police at a demonstration and helps him escape, largely because of his childhood experiences as a fugitive. Unable to understand his rescuer, the student mocks the study of film making as an occupation and needless Michel incessantly about his "bourgeois" life style...
Breslin even gets to the point where he is describing the paunchy, vociferous, cigar-smoking O'Neill as "a lovely spring rain...