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...with an old fairway acquaintance, Golfer Jimmy Demaret, three-time winner of the Masters Tournament, and described by Billy as "a surprisingly sweet Killarney tenor type." But Golfer Demaret has no place in Eckstine's vision of the composite "dream crooner." His choices and their attributes: "The ideal lad would have Perry Como's voice, Frank Sinatra's ease, Tony Martin's showmanship, Nat 'King' Cole's soul-and Bing Crosby's money...
...fine, strapping man, but just a low-class fellow for all that; yet Leo starts asking questions about Ted because any man who has a mysterious bond with Marian is worth investigating. But he gets only short, veiled answers. "Mr. Burgess is a bit of a lad," says the coachman. "He's a bit of a lady-killer, but there's no harm in that," says Lord Trimingham casually...
...Denver on his first extended tour of the West, vacationing Student Arthur MacArthur, 16, son of General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, was cornered by newsmen at a hotel, promptly showed an inherited talent for maneuver. Photographers slyly tried to get the lad to pose directly before several framed pictures of President Dwight Eisenhower. But young MacArthur was aware of his unguarded rear. "Oh no," he announced firmly. "My father doesn't want me to pose for pictures like that. He. told me: no political pictures." Then he faded away from the vulnerable sector...
...Newton, Mass. Republican Club, but when he told Welch of the Lawyers Guild incident before the hearings began, said Welch, "I asked him to go back to Boston. Little did I dream you could be so reckless and so cruel as to do an injury to that lad ... I fear he shall always bear a scar needlessly inflicted by you. If it were in my power to forgive you for your reckless cruelty, I will do so. I like to think I am a gentle man, but your forgiveness will have to come from someone other than...
...assassinate this lad no further. You have done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last have you left no sense of decency? If there is a God in heaven, it will do neither you nor your cause any good...