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...them, including Robert F. Thompson, executive vice president of Tecon Corp., a Dallas construction firm headed by Clint Murchison Jr. When Thompson borrowed $110,000 from Dallas' First National to buy Magic stock and offered to cut Baker in fifty-fifty on profits or losses under a "gentleman's agreement," Baker cleared a cool $21,000 profit without investing a penny...
...Miami pal of Levinson's. For his part, Baker had other well-oiled bank connections. Washington's District of Columbia National Bank lent him an unsecured $125,000 for the full cost of Baker's new Washington home because, a bank officer testified, Baker was "a gentleman with innumerable friendships and connections." Baker's house, into which he moved last fall with Wife Dorothy and the five Baker children, ages 13 to 1½, is near Lyndon Johnson's pre-White House mansion, and equally close to Fred Black's imposing...
...into a tug of war with Higgs carefully outlining his work and the student anxiously trying to probe the bizarre details of this man's history. The student usually lost, for Higgs is reticent about his past, and his "conversion" has left no visible scars. Still the complete Southern gentleman, he drawls softly and easily, smiles often, listens courteously--with apparent interest--to any argument, and seems incapable of anger or depression. His 6 feet, 3 inch frame moves with an awkward rural grace, out of place, and charming, in both the halls of Congress and the dining room...
...discussion after Khrushchev had concluded a most noisy diatribe, which he climaxed by removing his shoe and beating it upon the podium, Harold Macmillan looked up blandly into the TV cameras. "Would someone mind translating the gentleman's remarks" he murmurred. How caustic! How arid! How British! Now, imagine Red Skelton impersonating Macmillan. No more snap and crackle than yesterday's milk-logged Rice Krispies...
...equally in the profits or losses. Again the stock rose, and Baker cleared $21,000-without ever having invested a cent of his own money. Incredulous, the Senators wanted to know why Bobby had not been obliged to sign the note. "I just borrowed the money and had a gentleman's agreement with Bobby," said Thompson. "That's the way we do business in Texas...