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...there were no collection problems. If I couldn't get the price I wanted from one side, I could always sell out to the other side. In fact, just the threat of doing so usually secured immediate payment." After such free-lance blackmail, he was spotted as a comer by big crime's talent scouts. Behind a steel-plated door in the rear of his toney haberdashery, Racketeer Mickey Cohen began to peel off $100 bills and to the bemused gaze of Wiretapper Vaus, the long green "became a diamond ring for Alice, chromium accessories...
...William S. B. Lacy, will become U.S. Ambassador to Korea, replacing Ellis O. Briggs, who will go to Peru. Coloradan Lacy, 45, worked his way up in Washington's wartime bureaucracy before joining the Foreign Service, wears a Homburg and a natty mustache, is regarded as a diplomatic comer...
...appointed Gaullist Gaston Palewski, a leader of the opposition to the accords who has organized the effort to block implementation even after ratification. As a price for their hesitant support, the M.R.P. got four choice Cabinet posts, including Robert Schuman as Minister of Justice and Pierre Pflimlin, a political comer, as Minister of Finance. Faure pledged his government to carry through Mendès' proposed home rule for Tunisia, but appointed as Minister for Tunisian and Moroccan Affairs a dissident Gaullist who strongly opposes it. All of these appointments indicated an attempt to strike an "exact middle," which might...
...Madman & Comer. Peter enjoyed the role of eccentric young man-about-Mayfair. He entertained lavishly, kept tables permanently reserved at the West End's swankest nightclubs. When one of his companies tottered, Peter shifted money dexterously from another, started a new one, or found new money from his faithful backers. Nobody at first seemed to notice that none of his companies made money...
Next, he plunged into politics. In South Norfolk the Conservatives picked him (war hero, old Norfolk family) as a candidate, and he promptly astounded politicians by defeating Laborite Christopher Mayhew, then Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs. In Parliament Captain Baker was marked a comer...