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...practiced. By his varsity year, he was Coach Harlow's starting center, playing a full 60 minutes against Michigan. Dietz still remembers what a Michigan All-American said the second time Dietz tackled him: "Hey, kid, you're playing a pretty good game." Dietz spent a happy night in Stillman Infirmary...
...Harlow called him "Lone Star," after Lone Star Dietz, the Indian chief of the pro football Boston Redskins. So did his classmates. And they applauded him. They even whistled at him once senior year when he stripped to his red fiannel underwear on a Dunster House stage...
Front Runner. With these currents buffeting the economy, it is a tough time for anybody to be president of G.M. In grooming a chief executive, G.M. prides itself on picking the one man with the right combination of talents for the challenges ahead. Charlie Wilson was an engineering whiz, Harlow Curtice was a supersalesman, Fred Donner is a savvy financial man. Roche, more broadly trained than any of them, has scored a series of successes while working in marketing, public relations and international sales-precisely those areas in which G.M. senses its greatest potential for improvement and expansion...
...wasn't always that way. In his younger days, Hughes actually seemed to seek publicity. The handsome heir to an oil-drilling-equipment fortune, he bought his way into the movie industry, produced Hell's Angels and Scarface, discovered Jean Harlow, personally designed the brassiere that made Jane Russell famous. He was a friend to Lana Turner, Ava Gardner, Katharine Hepburn. Then he steadily became more of a loner. He secretly married green-eyed Actress Jean Peters in 1957. Now they live in a French Regency chateau in Bel Air, surrounded by high walls, bodyguards and rumors...
...that lie in clutches on practically every page ("El presidente's face went white with anger . . . 'I have had men shot for saying less!' "). Readers who like to spot the fictional distortions of real-life people in Robbins' books (Howard Hughes and Jean Harlow in The Carpetbaggers) will have no trouble identifying lightly veiled counterparts of the Rothschilds, Trujillo, Swindler Serge Rubinstein, and Porfirio Rubirosa...