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...thousands of Americans who made them possible. Few could take such personal satisfaction as a trimly handsome man who makes his contribution to U.S. defense from a paneled penthouse office overlooking Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills, Calif. As president of the Northrop Corp., Thomas Victor Jones, 41, heads the crackerjack industrial team that makes the Q-ball, the Datico, the Polaris star-tracker-and the bodies, brains, eyes and nervous systems of scores of other devices to carry men, or the alert instruments of men, off the earth. Many of its competitors are bigger than Northrop (which, with assets...
...Despite the family's connections in high finance, young Quesada had no dreams of becoming a dollar scion. He flitted from school to school-Wyoming Seminary (Methodist) in Kingston, Pa., the University of Maryland, Georgetown University-played topflight tennis and some football, and did little else. He sold Crackerjack at Griffith Stadium, spent many a summer as a lifeguard in the Tidal Basin Pond near the Washington Monument...
...Another equally important dimension to the Brownell operation is implicit in the comment of Assistant Attorney General Perry Morton: "I think we've got a real law office here." Obscured by Brownell's political reputation was the fact that he is a crackerjack lawyer. He led his Yale Law School class, edited the Law Journal, won an Order of the Coif (he was Phi Beta Kappa from his home-state University of Nebraska), and is still considered by two former deans to rank among the finest students in Yale history. In private practice he was a partner...
...football game. "Boy," said the governor nervously, "if we don't get there by halftime, Jane will have my hide." He got there, but it hardly mattered. Moppets swarmed over him so that he could not see the field. He treated each with courtly courtesy, autographing crackerjack boxes, raincoats and match folders. He was glad when he heard that the game, between Tallahassee's Leon High School Lions and the Ocala Wildcats, ended in a tie, 13-13. "Well," said the governor, "that's one consolation. No one can be mad because I rooted for the wrong...
...beneficial influence on children"). She gathered children of local railroaders, lumber dealers, locksmiths, mechanics, polished up the kids' piping tones until they became as smooth as their scrubbed faces, and as crisp as the little girls' curtsies. The late Poet Dylan Thomas, who might have made a crackerjack press-agent if he had tried, called the Obernkirchen girls "angels in pigtails...