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Herold Hunt has always been a "joiner," and always as a president, chairman or leader, never just a card carrying member of an organization. His vitality has been largely responsible for his successes, but the guiding force of this vitality has always been personal satisfaction. Right now his satisfaction come from disproving the saying. "Those who can, do; those who can't, teach...
Long Lists. But if Linus Pauling's list of scientific honors is as long as his arm, so is the list of way-out political organizations he has supported. Pauling is a signer and, with all the zeal of a highbrowed Babbitt, a joiner. He will put his name on most anything presented to him with even a faint humanitarian argument. Many of the outfits he has endorsed were merely odd. But some were undeniably Communist fronts, and they have got him in trouble...
...eaten as much Kiwanis, Optimist, Lion, Eagle, Elk and DeMolay creamed peas and ham as anyone else in Detroit. Fuller belongs to all those societies and, thanks to honorary memberships, many more. But bald, indefatigably gregarious Walter Fuller, 60, is more than a mere joiner: he is also the fraternal editor of the Detroit News...
Vladimir Babbitt is not a compulsive but a compulsory joiner: his party card is his badge of acceptability. But whatever the country and whomever it profits, a wheel is a wheel is a wheel. Production quotas must be met. Fear and pride make the Red executive an adept at the fine but dangerous art of cooking the books; thus there is more Potemkin fakery than socialist realism in Soviet statistics...
...longtime leader of the Radical Socialist Party, a gourmet and bon vivant, Herriot was for 52 years mayor of Lyon, five times minister, and three times Premier of France. An inveterate joiner (some 300 organizations), Herriot was so outraged by the Russian rape of Hungary that he resigned from the Franco-Soviet Friendship Society-and when he asked the name of the society's president, to address his resignation to, he discovered it was himself...