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...line: "How would you like to get involved in an honest-to-gosh presidential campaign?" In 1960, the Kennedys got to almost every convention delegate as early as possible, recorded their preferences in a card catalogue that proved accurate to within a few votes by convention time. The 1968 dossier has already been started...
...details of how Yakov died. Apparently there were no takers; Svetlana remembers in her Twenty Letters to a Friend that Stalin knew only that Yakov had been shot, but had no official explanation of where or how. In 1945, U.S. and British intelligence teams found in Berlin the German dossier on Yakov, which consists of a letter by SS Commander Heinrich Himmler confirming Yakov's death, an autopsy report, depositions from guards and fellow prisoners, and pictures of the young man stretched out on the camp fence...
Boyden's prospects are rarely aware that Boyden is aware of them as potential job hoppers. Former Studebaker President Sherwood Harry Egbert entered the dossier files years ago when McCulloch Corp., of which he was then executive vice president, commissioned Boyden's firm for a recruiting job. His own number came up in 1960, when Studebaker asked Boyden for a new president. More recently, there was Gillette's ex-President Stuart Hensley, who had been a contented company man for more than two decades until this year, when Boyden 1) sold Warner-Lambert Pharmaceutical Co. on Hensley...
...Commission unleashed an army of investigators to dredge up the facts about Ruby (né Jacob Rubenstein, alias J. Leon Rubenstein), the seedy Dallas strip-joint owner who yearned to be a mensch, a pillar of the community, but always remained a smalltime schwanz. Commission sleuths assembled a voluminous dossier that told everything-and nothing-about him. They could detail his gross income and net profits for February 1958, but they could not discover his exact birth date and wound up listing eight in the year 1911. They learned that his boyhood nickname was "Sparky," then gave three different reasons...
...Ernst Klingsiek, scribbled Martens' words on a prescription pad - words that a Nazi judge soon called "worth five death sentences." Condemned to the guillotine. Martens spent a year in prison, mostly in chains, until his dossier was deliberately lost by a Nazi official who happened to be one of his ex-patients. Because officials dared not kill him without proper papers, Martens survived...