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...this year's tornado season, and he began his hunting on April 15. He carries 500 lbs. of weather instruments and a radio altimeter. A movie camera takes continuous pictures of the airplane's flying instruments. Whenever he thinks it worthwhile, Cook talks, in his calm drawl, to a tape recorder...
Andrew Allen, 52, is a precise and practical man, with a windburned complexion and a flat drawl; he became Sunday school secretary of the Texas Baptist Convention in 1949, and since then has worked out his own theory of how to do his job. "Small units," he says crisply. "The small unit concept is what has built the Texas Sunday school system, and Sunday school is our best evangelistic opportunity. You build a church by building the Sunday school. When you reach people in Sunday school and teach them the Bible, you get the money; they want to expand...
...clock's hands moved past 11 p.m., the election returns flowed steadily, and the telephone rang in a cramped Manchester, N.H. hotel suite. Democratic National Committeewoman Myrtle McIntyre answered the call, heard the droning drawl of her candidate in the Democratic half of New Hampshire's presidential primary, calling in from the Minnesota campaign hustings to find out how he was doing. Mrs. McIntyre assured the candidate that there was little doubt about his victory. "Really?" asked he. "Yes," said she. Exulted Candidate Estes Kefauver...
...took it off, waved it, put it back, took it off again, tossed it aside. He enthroned himself in a large chair in front of a head photograph of himself that measured five feet from groomed hair to fighting jaw. Then Estes Kefauver, in his familiar, prim drawl, began to read: "I have received much encouragement, particularly from the rank-and-file members of the party. I therefore announce my candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination at the convention to be held in Chicago next August...
Personality & Private Life. Despite his decades in the East, Quarles still has a slight Arkansas drawl. Greying, blue-eyed, slight, he never smokes, eats sparsely, almost never drinks. He likes to cook his own morning oatmeal, sometimes drinks plain hot water instead of coffee or tea. In Washington he and his second wife Rosina (his first marriage ended in divorce) live quietly in their own home near Chevy Chase; to avoid the capital rounds, they consulted a protocol expert for advice on invitations they could properly skip. He enjoys dancing, good music, golf and-"through force of habit," he says...