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...tobacco farmer, he worked his way through high school, enlisted in the Navy (he still bears a permanent souvenir of his Navy days: a forearm rose tattoo). One day in 1911, aboard the battleship U.S.S. Delaware, Chief Electrician Morgan helped an inventor named Elmer Sperry install a new gyroscopic compass for a test. Sperry was so impressed that he hired Morgan, who worked up through the Sperry ranks, became president in 1928, expanded the firm into a wide field (e.g., guided missiles, hay balers), and retired in 1952. A working, organization Democrat, Morgan summed up his view of the Oppenheimer...
...speaking to me-not writing at all." Later, when Lindbergh was battling through the thunderheads of prose composition, he was perplexed by the problem of how to present the meticulous log of his 1927 flight without boring the reader with such vital but prosaic details as fuel consumption and compass headings. Again, Anne had a helpful idea: "Don't let the log readings tie you down. Put them in-let them punctuate the story. They give . . . a subconscious sense of time-a beating undertone . . . Leave them there-stark on a page." In his hour-by-hour chapter leads, building...
...concert to an exciting climax. Jay Powers '56 performed Glazounov's Saxophone Concerto, a work whose chief merit is that it allowed Mr. Powers to prove the amazing finesse with which his instrument can be handled. Such a delicate treatment of the instrument seems to indicate the inherently limited compass of its tonal range. But the novel beauty of the effects produced and Mr. Powers dazzling agility banished any hint of monotony...
...heir to a third of the $35 million estate* left by her eccentric grandmother, Anita McCormick Elaine, International Harvester heiress, benefactress to the University of Chicago, Foundation for World Government and latter-day angel to such causes as the late Progressive Party and Manhattan's defunct pinko Daily Compass...
Then, after staring at the ceiling for a moment, the President gave a compass reading for his Administration. He said: "When it comes down to dealing with the relationships between the human in this country and his Government, the people in this Administration believe in being what I think we would normally call liberal, and when we deal with the economic affairs of this country, we believe in being conservative...