Word: drawling
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...Texan with a quick smile, a quicker tongue and a big hello for everyone. At 45, he is president of Chrysler Corp., the second largest automaker in the world. He never lets the size of his job bother him. He likes to turn to his pretty blonde wife and drawl: "Angel, can you remember when I've ever been kept awake by worrying?" Angel always shakes her head. Says Tex Colbert: "Business doesn't worry me. It's a downright pleasure...
...Yale, the situation was quite different. The Elis had won five of their first seven games, the best season in Hickman's regime so far. Though Hickman (Tennessee '32) was no Old Blue, Yale liked him fine. The Yale Athletic Department also liked the corn-pone drawl in which Hickman had announced his coaching aim at New Haven: to win just enough games "to keep the alumni sullen but not mutinous." Though Hickman's five-year contract still had two years to run, Yale last week tore it up and handed him a new one. Its term...
Flashes & Drawls. "When you listen to one of the New England boys with his drawl, bargain with a Texan with his drawl," said the head of Boston's Scouts, "you know that . . . these boys are getting a picture of the nation they couldn't get any other...
...institution is ex-Democratic Boss James A. Farley, chairman of the board of the Coca-Cola Export Corp. But the boss of the Export Corp. is its president, slight, dapper James Curtis, who has spent nearly 27 of his 48 years with the company and whose gentle New Orleans drawl makes "Coca-Cola" sound like a whispered caress...
...evening last October Yvette went to a cocktail party near Frankfurt with her husband, U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Andrew Madsen. They drank bourbon-and-Coke, played "Pass the Kleenex,"*and Yvette twitted her Georgia-born host, another U.S. officer, on his Dixie drawl. "O.K.," responded the airman good-naturedly, "how do you say it in Brook-lynese?" Sensitive Yvette slapped the joker full in the face and demanded that her husband take her home immediately. Andy Madsen, a Californian, was too busy laughing to pay much attention. He tossed her the keys to the family car, and Yvette stormed...