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...weeks in the Polaris program, he demonstrated a massive capacity for work and a monumental scorn for the little details that might slow him down. He had no time for shufling papers through IN and OUT boxes. He kept a clean desk, stuffed all incoming mail in a small drawer and remarked: "When I can't close the drawer, someone around here isn't doing enough work." As he recruited people into the Special Projects group, Red gave them all-including their families-a patriotic pep talk on the importance of their mission. Whenever anyone seemed...
...ranking government official in a position to weigh a lot of top-drawer information that the U.S. gets, made these private assumptions last week that bear on current U.S. policy-planning...
...Murray Rennell Rodd, whose business she described as "sailing small boats"; today she is the most famous member of the family. Nancy writes novels and biographies, and invented the U-game, by which it can be determined who is out of, and who is not out of, the top drawer...
...spring of 1956, Sicilian Prince Giuseppe di Lampedusa diffidently handed an unsigned manuscript copy of The Leopard to a friend, who put it away in a desk drawer and forgot it. Lampedusa later dispatched another copy of the story -which he had contemplated writing for a quarter-century-to a publisher's reader, who pronounced it unpublishable. Five days after this news, in July 1957, the cancer-ridden, 61-year-old prince died. Months later, the manuscript in the desk drawer was unearthed and sent to Gian Giacomo Feltrinelli, Doctor Zhivago's original publisher, who recognized its power...
...Kern's estate waited so long to cash in on the contents of the safe? "Miss Crawford offers the auspices we have waited for,'' said Kern's daughter (wife of Hollywood Producer Jack Cummings). "After all, the songs are no good in a bureau drawer." It was possible, too, suggested his longtime collaborator, P. G. Wodehouse, that the melodies-until now heard only by a handful of people-would turn out to be something less than Golden Bantam Kern...