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...Highest Compliment. The members of the office staff who stick around long enough to get to know him swear by Adams. Says Alice Smith, a former secretary on his White House staff: "The work he does! A few times people in Washington asked me where I worked, and when I told them they would look at me with a squint and say, 'Oh, you work for him?' And I would say, 'Yes, I do, and he's the finest boss in Washington...
...promotion is designed for the music lover with his nose in the air, e.g., "It's more than a gift, it's a compliment...
...been very critical of most of your stories on agriculture, I would like to be equally quick to compliment you most highly for your farm-income article in the Nov. 7 issue; it is factual and written with the clear-cut seriousness which the subject deserves...
...Halfback John David Crow and are happily reminded of that Aggie immortal, Jarrin' John Kimbrough. The hard-charging linemen are many, mean and magnificent, and recently the squad elected Sophomore Jim Stanley as the meanest of the bunch. "Shucks," said the dark-eyed guard who knows an Aggie compliment when he hears it, "that's an awful big honor...
When E. H. Harriman died, he left a will of just 99 words, bequeathing his entire fortune to his wife. From Financial Genius Harriman, who was never accused of sentimentality, this was the highest form of compliment. It was deserved. Taking over the fortune at 58, to become the world's richest woman, Mrs. Harriman entered a special line in her biography in Who's Who in America: "Sole heir upon death of husband to estate appraised at about $100,000,000, of which...