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Burying the Hatchet...
This tough action was probably the only thing that saved the company. Says Nevin: "In the first year I had the image of a hatchet man. It was a damned unpleasant way to make a living." Production of so-called private-label tires, those sold at service stations under oil company names, for example, was cut drastically. "For too long," said Nevin, "Firestone's objective was to take any business just to fill idle capacity, even though the profits were marginal. Our productivity problem was self-inflicted...
...took 27 bullet wounds during the first 24 years of his life, battling such miserable miscreants as Flattop, the Mole, Pruneface, Mumbles, the Brow, B-B Eyes and 88 Keyes (the larcenous pianist). But the villains never got the best of Dick Tracy, the hatchet-jawed, hawk-nosed dean of comic-strip detectives. Last week, Tracy, his snap-brim hat and two-way radio intact, celebrated his 50th year as a cartoon hawkshaw. So did his creator, Chester Gould, 80. Gould, now in affluent retirement in Woodstock, Ill., first dubbed his hero "Plainclothes Tracy," The moniker soon changed and later...
...signatures are part of the self-characterization. Formidable, hatchet-wielding Carry Nation styled herself "Home Defender." The last survivor of the outlaw Dalton gang scrawled "The Compliments of Emmett Dalton," covering all occasions. General George Patton in pearl-handled regalia penned a cloying confection about his boyhood church...
...unique talent: as Captain Woofer, their boss, puts it, "Nobody's asking anybody to solve anything. I just like the way you two seem to clear every homicide." Seem is the operative word: they once convinced the department that a local cocaine dealer had committed suicide with a hatchet. As for nabbing real and careful murderers, these weary, inventive sleuths know better: that happens on prime time. TV plotting, however, is never far away...