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...Poor little Jules" was no dynamo. He could not, like his mistress, write for 14 hours at a stretch and then mount a horse and gallop to a lovers' tryst. Soon he was dropped by the wayside, and George moved on to Novelist Prosper Merimee. Merimee, as Maurois vouches, "was of the race from which the Devil picks his Don Juans," and spoke of love "with all the coarseness of a medical student"; George hoped that his cynicism would cure her "childish susceptibilities." But "Don Juan failed utterly to come up to scratch...
...humming din of the plant's control room last week, Premier Duplessis pressed a button to start a 45,000-h.p. generator. Nodding at it and the other big dynamo, he shouted to McCormick: "Do you think they produce more light than the Chicago Tribune?" The colonel chortled appreciatively. Later, at a banquet in the Manoir Comeau the Premier, himself a man who knows his own worth, told 215 guests: "We're somewhat alike, the colonel and I. We're both criticized, but we both do some good work...
Made-to-Order Team. This is the first commercial building venture outside New York for the Uris brothers, Percy, 53, and Harold, 47, who function like a made-to-order team. Percy is the dynamo and dreamer of the combination. An economics major at Columbia, where he graduated in 1920, he handles the company's financing and mortgaging arrangements. Harold, a civil-engineering graduate of Cornell in 1925, is the detail man and boss of construction. Percy is voluble and high-strung; Harold is stolid and softspoken. Says he: "Percy makes the money and I spend...
...zealot of the left, David Ben-Gurion, the shock-haired dynamo who is Premier of Israel, used to promise full-fledged socialism in Israel "in my lifetime." Each trying, hard-won year of the new republic, however, has found B-G preaching less socialism and seeking more capitalism. Last year his Mapai (Labor) Party was urged to form a stable, powerful cabinet with the free-enterprising General Zionists (Israel's No. 2 party). B-G cried "heresy." Never, said he, could his democratic, planned-economy socialists unite with such exploiters. Privately, B-G had another concern. He feared that...
Scripps, taking back his advice, said things had changed. He persuaded dynamo Howard to stay, changed the chain's name to Scripps-Howard, let him share the management with Scripps's son & heir Robert. Roy Howard brought the chain its greatest growth, prosperity and editorial vigor. He expanded the chain boldly into New York, Washington, Birmingham, Albuquerque, Fort Worth, etc. Far from making his papers pale stereotypes of one another, he encouraged local editors to lead their communities, as the Cleveland Press's Louis Seltzer has so notably done. Howard, whose vernacular is as colorful...