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...hell keyboard again last week-only this time he was putting national defense to political ragtime. In one of his jazziest now-when-I-was-President moods, Harry recalled how he had seen the U.S. long-range missile program lagging, called in Chrysler Corp. President K. T. Keller, made him a missiles czar, with "instructions to knock heads together whenever it was necessary to break through bottlenecks." After that, claimed Truman, the missile program made "encouraging progress"-until, of course, the Eisenhower Administration ruined...
...Keller's boat, grabbing a two-length lead at the Massachusetts Avenue bridge, hung on till the finish to triumph by half a length over Ron Garmey's crew...
...Keller's winning time in the annual event was 6:58, an excellent time for the fall season. Garmey trailed by two seconds, while boats stroked by Mark Hoffman and Kingsbury Chase battled for last place. Hoffman took third by only three feet...
...gave G.M. the style lead for more than 20 years. Earl pioneered the rounded body for mass-production cars, slanted windshields, fenders that projected over the doors, the hardtop convertible. Despite G.M.'s success others were slow to follow. Even as late as 1948, Chrysler President K. T. Keller hotly defended his high-hat, high-topped, old-fashioned cars: "There are parts of this country, containing millions of people, where both the men and the ladies are in the habit of getting behind the wheel, or on the back seat wearing hats . . ." Not until 1952, when President...
From there on, the film becomes a rather weird combination of the lives of Helen Keller and Trilby. Esther turns out to be a lovely and precocious girl, and when the newspapers get the story of her amazing development, her guardian is knocked off her feet by a mailbag full of invitations to speak before civic and religious organizations. She accepts a few of them, and before long she and Esther are major personalities on the lecture circuit. It is only a step from there to raising funds for other handicapped children, and before long Guardian Crawford finds herself...