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...under Calvin Coolidge and an oft-mentioned presidential possibility. When Franklin D. Roosevelt asked him to form a civilian intelligence service at the outset of World War II, Donovan followed the dictum of Stewart Menzies, his counterpart in the British secret service: "Intelligence is the business of gentlemen." Columnist Drew Pearson accurately described Donovan's fledgling OSS as "one of the fanciest groups of dilettante diplomats, Wall Street bankers and amateur detectives ever seen in Washington...
...Gentlemen's Quarterly asked him to pose doing a buck-and-wing. But it's his new megabuck-and-change contract that really has St. Louis Cardinals Shortstop Ozzie Smith, 28, kicking up his heels. Last week "the Wizard of Oz," as he is known around Busch Stadium, doubled his old salary in a pact with the 1982 World Series-winning Cards that will make him the highest-paid shortstop in major league history: a reported $1 million a year. Oz's golden-brick road will run for at least the next three seasons...
Getting into the future once proved just as difficult. The science-fiction field, formerly a gentlemen's club run by the likes of Isaac Asimov, Frank Herbert and Arthur C. Clarke, now has a woman at the top of the charts. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin, 53, won both Hugo and Nebula prizes, sci-fi's Pulitzers. Le Guin also won the National Book Award for her children's novel The Farthest Shore in 1972. Her 22 books, most of which are science fiction, have en livened the hardware-oriented genre with emotional...
...president of Commodore International, whose PET (Personal Electronic Transactor) computer is the largest seller in Europe and one of the big four in the U.S. along with Apple, Radio Shack and IBM. Unwilling to be trammeled by cheaper imports, he called together investors a few years ago and said, "Gentlemen, we must build and sell a color computer for under $300." When the investors balked, Tramiel pounded the table and said that if they did not produce such a machine, the Japanese would. The result of that Tramiel browbeating is Commodore's VIC 20 (list price: $299, but avail...
...reworkings of a traditional holiday tune it called. "God Rest Ye, Corporation Men," sung to the tune of "Merry Gentlemen...