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Leon Trotsky, his bitter enemy, called him "a social climber." The epithet was untrue. Molotov is unassuming. He has had power for a quarter of a century. For half of this time, he has been Stalin's Man Friday, which is as high as a man can climb in Russia. Molotov has not let the power go to his head...
Hawaiian Swede. The man back of this triumph of paternalism over disease is big, redheaded, Swedish-born Dr. Nils Paul Larsen, Medical Director of Queens Hospital in Honolulu, allergist, artist, mountain climber and deep-sea diver (until heart trouble recently put a stop to it). Now 53, he went to Hawaii in 1921 as head of the hospital, a job he kept until his retirement last year. In the '20s the high infant-mortality rate on the plantations shocked him, but he thought the plantations potentially "the finest biological test tubes in the world." He talked the Association directors...
Rink prospects, with nine veterans returning, and the best Freshman squad in a decade now in its Sophomore year, are definitely above-par, and the sextet which emerges from nightly practice sessions, started Monday, should be strictly a social climber in the best League circles...
...Even for us, this is difficult, for though we can train men to become technically proficient on ice and rock, we cannot train expert mountaineers in the relatively easy mountain ranges of the East. And to be a good leader, a man must be an expert climber with at least one full season's experience in high mountain areas...
...This mouthy, pretentious, calculating little climber . . . this degraded knave . . . this glib, vulgar, slippery little jackleg . . . that posturing sometime reformer . . . the twenty-two goats and monkeys who composed the grand jury . . . this blank-brained menagerie, bamboozled by transparent obfuscations ... the gang of sneaking child-cheaters . . . these two low, skulking rogues . . . and the rest of the besotted judicial jackals . . . illiterate imbeciles . . . lick-spittle timeservers and chore-boys . . . aromatically crooked as a skunk's hind leg. . . . The corruption of these abject poltroons is merely one example of the corruption which infects our entire judicial system . . . these esurient, self-seeking herding jerks...