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...read a book ("I'd rather have people tell me things").* Yet his intellectual weakness only throws him back the more strongly on his principal strength: a deep, intuitive identification with the common impulses of common people. A friend explains that he is really "a sort of visionary handyman, who has built a whole industry out of daydreams. He has that rarest of qualities, the courage of his doodles...
...political relations with foreign officials. As the Government's top public-relations man, Simmons is as busy as the White Rabbit in the garden of the Queen of Hearts. He is the VIP's avenue to President Eisenhower, a caterer who solves some global gastronomic problems,* handyman for royalty, custodian of the Great Seal of the United States, and Washington's most indefatigable partygoer...
...going to be the biggest crime story in years. Publisher William R. Hearst Jr., who has been trying to jack up his ailing chain, saw the trial as a rare opportunity. He ordered a task force dispatched to Cleveland, led by Sob Sister Dorothy Kilgallen (TIME, Nov. 15), Handyman Bob Considine and Cartoonist Burris Jenkins Jr. (for courtroom sketches). Scripps-Howard followed suit with its own crew, including Inspector Robert Fabian of Scotland Yard, who, repelled by the Hollywood-like atmosphere of the trial, wrote icily: "In the staid atmosphere of the Old Bailey, this would not have been allowed...
Whisper in Great Cornard. Like most political tempests, this one began as a whisper in the grass roots. Young (34) Len Fisher is the local handyman in Great Cornard, a village of 1,000 souls which has drowsed on Suffolk's green plains through seven centuries of British history. He is also secretary of the local Labor Party, and early last year, he got to thinking. Like many another Briton, especially of Socialist persuasion, he was worried about the hostility between Communism and the West. And he was worried about rearming the Germans. So he sat down...
Wonderful. Artzybasheff's cover . . . a spitting image of me as a handyman, including pipe...