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...Harmon Whittington, 54, took over as president of Houston's Anderson, Clayton & Co., Inc., world's largest cotton merchants (1952 sales: $892,733,355), succeeding Lamar Fleming Jr., 61, who moved up to chairman. Whittington, who got into the cotton business because it seemed as if cotton buyers had to work only a few months of the year, started with Anderson, Clayton at 18 as a stenographer, rose to salesman, branched out into foreign operations, and has been executive vice president since 1945. ¶Frederick Russell Kappel, 51, took over as president of Western Electric Co. Inc., American...
Dramatic support for Brownell's story came from a surprising quarter. Democrat T. Lamar Caudle, the onetime Assistant Attorney General who rocked Washington with his frank and ingenuous accounts of tax-case fixing, told the Des Moines Register that he had given a copy of the FBI report on White, marked for the White House, to his boss, Attorney General Clark, now a Supreme Court Justice. Drawled Caudle: "It was a sweetheart. I jumped when I read that thing ... I said, Tor God's sake, Tom, don't let that appointment go through. It will come...
...uncomfortable all the time." The river camp to which the party repaired made him nervous-it floated on empty gasoline drums, and "when the Mississippi went up, the house went up with it." Furthermore, at 5 in the morning, everybody else decided to stay by the fire. Lamar and his then assistant, Turner L. Smith, dutifully set out with a guide-who quickly demonstrated that he was drunk by heading their powerboat straight for a grove of trees...
...boat parted those trees," Lamar recalled, "just like you part your hair with a comb." And when he discovered the water around the duck blind was frozen, the guide tried to use the boat as an icebreaker. "All of a sudden," said Lamar, "I noticed that the ice had sawed the boat in two. The water was aflyin' . . . but we made it back to the blind. We stayed there three or four hours. Finally some old duck came in by mistake. Smith grabbed a gun . . . and hit a decoy...
After they stopped laughing, the committee members sighed in resignation, and went on with the hearing as if they too felt that poor old Lamar had already suffered enough...