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Once before, in 1932, the nation had called on him in an emergency, and he had driven to his first inauguration in grey weather, confident and cheery, beside dour Herbert Hoover. Now millions of people the world over, in even greyer weather, looked on the White House as a symbolic lighthouse in the worldwide blackout of democracy...
...well, driving eight-ox teams with loads of pipe through West Virginia mud, laying a 20-mile stretch of solid-mahogany corduroy-road in Venezuela. During World War I he joined Sun Oil's Philadelphia office as aide to Elder Brother John Howard, who is a little taller, greyer, soberer. In 1916 Sun Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. had been founded in Chester, Pa. largely to build oil tankers. Under shrewd Pew management Sun Shipbuilding became one of the biggest of its kind; money rolled in. Joe Pew married a Philadelphia girl, Alberta Hensel, quietly joined social life along...
Last week there were indications in Washington that Pat Hurley, greyer but still stiffly handsome at 57, was about to rise and argue the point. Reporters prowling about Washington's Shoreham Building, which Mr. Hurley owns and uses to house his rich law practice, discovered that: 1) one of the seven Hurley law partners spends his time answering (encouragingly) letter-writers who think the Republicans this year need more color and less pussyfooting; 2) at least one State's Republican boss had already offered his delegation to Hurley; 3) Hurley biography brochures were getting wide distribution...
...smash rose-colored spectacles right & left, to knock many a genteel pretence into a sprawling grotesque. Detractors have called him a bullying bravo, have pointed out that smashing spectacles and pushing over a pushover are not brave things to do. As the "lost generation" he named* have grown greyer and more garrulous, so his own invariably disillusioned but Spartan books have begun to seem a little dated; until it began to be bruited that Hemingway was just another case of veteran with arrested development and total recall...
...years bearded old Jacobus J. Jonker got poorer, greyer and dingier washing South African gravel in the prospector's enduring hope of someday finding a diamond as big as an egg at his feet. Three miles away from his miserable diggings at Elandsfontein another prospector had found the Cullinan Diamond, big as an orange, one hot January day in 1905. A $5,000 find several years ago enabled Jacobus Jonker to hire a black Kaffir boy to do his digging. One of the Jonker sons was watching the black one day last week when the Kaffir threw...