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Love built his empire on a shoestring. Son of a Harvard math professor, he studied economics at Harvard ('17), helped to edit the Crimson. In World War I, as an infantry major in France, he won a citation for meritorious service. With $3,000 in Army savings, 23-year-old Spence Love went to his father's home town of Gastonia, N.C., persuaded local residents to put up another $80,000 to buy control of a clangorous old cotton mill. When cottons sagged and real estate surged in 1923, Love sold the plant for $200,000 but kept...
...Edited Disk. Tough, trenchant and tenacious, Arsenio Lacson reminds many Americans of Manhattan's rambunctious Fiorello La Guardia, who also served three terms. Like La Guardia, Lacson cleaned up a corrupt administration and a wide-open city; he fired 600 incompetent job holders. Night after night, Lacson patrols Manila in a black police car, returns from time to time to a corner table at the Bay View or Filipinas hotels, where he listens to complaints and requests, or talks profusely on a plugged-in telephone, punctuating his conversations with shots of whisky and four-letter expletives. Sunday nights, Lacson...