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Person to Person. In Chattanooga, Moonshiner Bob Renfro spotted sheriff's men closing in on his house, hurriedly poured his homemade liquor down the sink, discovered too late that Chief Herbert Grant was waiting with an open jug at the other end of the drain...
...Jug-A carburetor...
...script out of him. People loved him as a sort of raffish reproach to the world of respectability, a reprobate innocent. He got away with almost anything. The story goes that as an honored guest for an Oxford poetry society which served only select wines, Thomas asked for a jug of beer at the outset, cheerfully poured each successive vintage wine into the same jug and mixed it up with his teaspoon...
Minutes of the Meeting. At 60, George Meany, the Bronx plumber who rose to one of the world's most influential positions, is an impressive man. He is big: 228 lbs., 5 ft. 9¾ in. tall. He is jug-eared, with close-cropped grey hair that has receded far back on his head. His neck is larger than the largest conventional collar size, and his shirts are made to order. So are his suits (eight a year, at $125 a suit). He has huge, deeply calloused, plumber's hands, made to grasp a Stillson wrench...
Into the Spotlight. The eclipse of Mikoyan, even if temporary, throws into high relief a growing figure on the Soviet scene: stocky, jug-eared Nikita Khrushchev, general secretary of the Communist Party-a job held by Stalin to the end of his life. A dozen major speeches have put Khrushchev in the world spotlight during the past year. He has attended Communist Party congresses in Poland and Prague, led a Soviet delegation...