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Allison's coworker, Italian-born, Nobel-Prizeman Enrico Fermi, was in the same fix. Of him a colleague said: "He's a tougher character and good at saying no. He refused to do administrative work. He doesn't have a phone and refused to have a secretary...
A top U.S. diplomat appraised Lie as "a man with guts; no political or other culture; not the ideal man; but the best available, since it finally had to be a European." Old-style diplomats found him uncouth but impressive, "a rough diamond." The difference between Lie and smooth, aristocratic...
Harvard, like Boston, was founded on towpaths and since the average Harvard-man's mentality has little in common with a cow, he may have some difficulty in finding his bearings. But map in hand, and with a few pointers in his head, the newcomer will, in the space of...
¶ Admiral of the Fleet Sir John Cronyn Tovey, 60, lean, caustic Commander in Chief of the wartime British Home Fleet, known above decks as "Jack," below decks as "Splash Guts."
Twice George ("Old Blood & Guts") Patton had been stripped of his command. The first time was after a public furor in the U.S. over his slapping and abusing a shell-shocked soldier in a Sicilian hospital. (Technically, he remained head of the Seventh Army, but it was a phantom Army...