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...five minutes' acquaintance) makes it his business to get along with such unalike rich men's sons as Marshall Field and William Randolph Hearst. Now 43, Smitty is one answer to what became of the bond salesman of the fast & loose '203. A husky near-six-footer with a broad face and a bent nose, he looks like the halfback he once was (Western Reserve University). He gave up college because classes cost him money: they kept him from selling bonds. At 27, he had earned a half million dollars, and a few months later went broke...
...ball dead on the pin. (He could equip a caddy with a baseball glove and pitch iron shots to him on the first bounce.) His one weakness is with the putter. He is inclined to stroke a short putt too hard, and is more likely to sink a 20-footer than a three-footer. He knows and bemoans this frailty, but a bad session on the greens never fails to ruffle his manufactured composure...
...action, tomorrow you would be walking along with Negroes to the ballot box. I am not . . . in favor of social or political equality of the white and black races. I believe in action, and not mere words." Bull-necked Governor Johnston, 47, is a tough, chunky six-footer, a "linthead" (he worked in cotton mills as a boy), and was a front-line sergeant in World War I. Beside him, Cotton Ed seemed aged and tired. In one appearance, Cotton Ed spoke a few minutes, then played a recording of a speech he made six years ago. The audience...
Straight-backed, six-footer Pick once said: "I can keep up with Stilwell as fast as he can drive the Japs out of this area." He did. With 9,000 American engineer troops, a regiment of Chinese engineers and 10,000 native laborers, he had completed 167 miles of road and six airfields...
...Arthur Footer Suite for Strings, Op. 63 (Boston Symphony, Serge Koussevitzky conducting; Victor; 4 sides). A fresh, well-built Brahmsian piece. Salem-born, Harvard-trained Composer Foote (1853-1937) was a far sounder craftsman than most present-day U.S. composers. Performance excellent, recording good...