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...only flaw in the Bennett legend is that he did not get the mausoleum he wanted. This was to be a statue, 200 feet high, in the shape of an owl (Bennett liked owls). It was to be far grander than Grant's tomb on Riverside Drive (Bennett did not like Grant). But Architect Stanford White, who was supposed to design the bird, got himself shot by Harry Thaw. Bennett lost interest, and Manhattan lost...
...fence mending in the world could hardly have made Rockefeller the top possibility for the 1964 nomination. The rich and cosmopolitan state of New York is a typical social laboratory that contains within itself all of the domestic problems-from dairy farming to police protection-found on a grander and more remote scale in the Federal Government. In an era in which many big-state Governors are defeated by their task, Rockefeller has been a successful Governor. "It's like an intensive graduate course in social, economic and po-,. litical problems," says Rocky. "I enjoy solving problems." In that...
...much bigger than the other kids and I didn't stay long. I started fighting, and I started playing hooky, and one thing led to another. I wound up in the house of detention." The original charge was breaking and entering, but Liston soon graduated to grander crime, served two years in the state prison at Jefferson City, Mo., for a series of restaurant robberies. There Liston met a chaplain who interested him in boxing. He memorized helpful hints from Joe Louis' My Life Story (sample: "Never jab at your target; always try to jab through it"), soon...
...born seven years ago when three leading citizens met for drinks at the Washington Athletic Club. Two members of the Chamber of Commerce and a newspaperman convivially agreed that it would be nice for Seattle to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition with another, grander fair. By the time the three reached the label on the bottle, the fair was no joke, and things began to happen. The city pledged $10 million for an opera house, a theater and an exhibition hall. The state put up $10 million more for a coliseum. Local businessmen rounded...
...higher loyalties are to God and mankind. Leifer swallows Gordon's odd Germanic idea that the nation is the locus of man's creativity, that there are "no human ideals which are not national ideals." Gordon, it must be said, did tend to think of Israel as something mistily grander than a modern nation, but baleful romantic and biological fallacies so warp his nationalism that I am skeptical of its contemporary relevance. Leifer...