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There was time during the week for two private dinners with friends, prepared by the Reagans' longtime cook, Ann Allman. One day Reagan joined four personal and political intimates-Holmes Tuttle, Justin Dart, Jack Hume and William French Smith-for lunchtime reminiscences at the California Club in downtown Los...
Schweiker was grilled further that night by some of Reagan's close friends, including Justin Dart, the chief of Dart Industries, and Holmes Tuttle, a millionaire Ford dealer. They were satisfied. Tuttle rationalized: "A running mate does not have to be a Charlie McCarthy. Senator Schweiker voted for some...
"That was the curious incident," remarked Sherlock Holmes.
Economists these days are applying a kind of Sherlock Holmes logic to the strange case of interest rates. Like the watchdog who did not bark (thus signifying to Holmes that the crime he was investigating must have been an inside job, perpetrated by someone the dog knew), loan charges have...
The affair quieted down for a month. Then, in early March, David Holmes, another Thorpe chum and former Liberal official, volunteered that he had paid Scott $7,000 just before Britain's Feb. 1974 general elections "without the knowledge" of Thorpe. Party Whip Smith, never a close ally of...