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Replacing Edmund Mansure, who resigned under fire (TIME, Feb. 20), South Dakota-born Franklin Floete, 66, promptly let it be known that GSA is in for some changes. He snorted with disgust upon entering his dark, cavernous office, modeled after the hall of an English manor house, where Albert B. Fall once sat as Harding's Interior Secretary and where Harold Ickes ruled before working himself a new building. "You don't call this an office," snapped Floete. "I'm going down the hall a few doors, where there is a human-sized office...
...Mollet started with high hopes, but bogged down into immobilism even faster than most of its predecessors. The Assembly's attempt to bar Poujade Deputies on flimsy, legalistic grounds outraged even some of Poujade's critics and created a wave of sympathy for him and fresh disgust at the Assembly's petty...
Curley's chronicler, Novelist Edwin Greene O'Connor, 38, is a onetime radio announcer who made $720 from his first novel, and shelved the second in disgust. This one is already a smash success. Even before publication, Columbia Pictures bought the movie rights for $150,000. The novel also won the Atlantic Prize, was chosen by the Book-of-the-Month Club (February) and Reader's Digest Book Club. It is the bristling, flamboyant saga of the decline and fall of the big city boss...
Both Cole and the professor agreed, however, that the university had to suspend Miss Lucy to avert bloodshed. They also expressed surprise and disgust at the number of students who participated in the violent demonstrations...
Eating, sleeping and working with men who fill him with disgust helps to shock Fiddler out of his own alcoholism. But he has another reason: he has come to be fascinated by the cats, and he knows that working around them drunk means death. His boss is an Indian simply called Chief, a violent, powerful man with an instinctive way of handling the animals, who warns Fiddler not to become too friendly with them. As his respect for most of his fellows declines, his love for the hand some, graceful and proud animals be comes almost a passion...