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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Force orchestra was on hand to blare out Old Soldiers Never Die as 96 former command and staff comrades offered their twelfth annual salute to the stern, bayonet-spined Old Man, General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, turned 79. Among the many who wired birthday greetings: "Your old friend and assistant, Dwight D. Eisenhower...
Matter of Contacts. Before he left Harvard Law, Cushing married blonde, blue-eyed Justine Cutting, socialite daughter of Dr. Fulton Cutting of New York, professor of physics at New Jersey's Stevens Institute. His closest friend (and fellow Porcellian), Alexander McFadden, had married Justine's older sister. All through his life Alec Cushing has known important people, and casually made the most of his contacts. Desultorily looking for a job. Cushing ran into his old Groton classmate, Stewart Alsop, through him got an interview with Justice Department Trustbuster Thurman Arnold, who promptly hired...
...never got there. Skiing down a dangerous slope at Aspen with two experienced skiers one morning, the two brothers-in-law were trapped when a huge avalanche cut loose above them. Cushing was buried to his neck. Alexander McFadden died under tons of snow. The death of his closest friend was a profound shock to Cushing, still reduces him to sobs whenever he tells the story...
...opening of Squaw Valley Lodge on Thanksgiving Day, 1949, was a memorable fiasco. Cushing had to hire strikebreakers when his union workmen struck the week of the opening, hooked up plumbing himself. Justine hurriedly summoned the domestic couple from their New York home, pressed a friend into service as a chambermaid. One woman guest arrived early, found Cushing still at work on the plumbing. Snarled Alec: "Madam, come back in three hours, and we'll be ready. Meanwhile, don't bother me." That night everything went wrong. There was no dinner until 10. Only one toilet was working...
...moved quickly, enlisted the support of California State Senator Harold ("Biz") Johnson and Governor Goodie Knight, got the legislators to revive an old bill that had promised Los Angeles money to back its successful 1932 Summer Olympics bid, pass a new version to guarantee $1,000.000 for Squaw. Old Friend and Squaw Stockholder (5%) Laurance Rockefeller gave his support. With evidence of financial backing, a hastily prepared brochure and a charming dissertation on Squaw ("I'm a very strong speaker when I'm convinced"), Cushing sold the U.S. committee. His next target was the delegates to the Paris...