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...from each committee a full report of work done that day. Next morning Lord Beaverbrook reads these reports, then takes action. Example: one report told of a small Midlands manufacturer who was down in his output because of a shortage of certain classes of material and labor. A neighbor ing manufacturer had a surplus of both the material and the men, but Manufacturer No. 1 was not on speaking terms with Manufacturer No. 2. So Lord Beaver brook telephoned first one and then the other, coaxed them into cooperating. Next thing he heard, they were buddies...
...Marshal. After dinner he sinks into a big blue chair, turns a spotlight on himself, leaving his guests in the dark, and goes over his papers, firing questions at the guests. In the midst of their answers he interrupts them by picking up a telephone and bark ing: "I want 20 lorries," or "Get me Montreal. . . . I want 50 pilots. I want them at Montreal tomorrow morning." If he happens to notice that his guests look thirsty, he will say: "You must have some champagne. I have the finest champagne collection in London." Every night he telephones...
Then suddenly everybody knew about "poor Porkey." Sportswriters from coast to coast sobbed about the "poor but honest boy" who had been given a raw deal by golf's "stuffed shirts." Every community wanted to see Porky. The Professional Golfers Association had a hard time book ing a tournament unless Oliver was entered...
Shouted the Harvardman, "We're look ing for my $60 tooth...
...spend ten years trying to solve the question where to live. . . . William James and Howells, who had come from the West, retained the buoyant mood of the early republic; but most of the others were cautious and conservative, cool and dis illusioned on the surface, with the know ing air of men who expect to be swindled, who cannot trust the society in which they live...