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Young Bill has played it safe & sane since his teens. In those younger days he was a lank kid with a toothy grin, a penchant for flying, no allergy to work. On school vacations he worked as a "fly boy" in the pressroom at his father's New York Mirror. By the time he was 23 he was president of the American, and nobody objected. He earned the fond regard of Manhattan cops and firemen by plugging to get them higher pay. Occasionally he went nightclubbing with Irving Berlin...
...spoke, the first distant volley shook the hall. A lank, bald-headed man in white tie and tails, who bore a slight resemblance to U.S. Senator Robert Taft, mounted the podium and stood with bowed head, facing the Moscow State Philharmonic. He seemed to be counting off the rumbles of artillery. At the 20th, he raised his baton and began the world's premiere of his newest symphony. The bald-headed conductor was Russia's great est living musician, Sergei Prokofiev...
Since they formed a producing team in 1940, lank, solemn, ex-pressagent William Hoy Pine, 49, and sleek, peppery, ex-pressagent William Carroll Thomas, 41, have whipped up 30 musicals and melodramas for the nation's double bills. None has come close to an Oscar, but all have been good business...
Disapproval of the lank, onetime NYAdministrator had been a foregone conclusion, but the strength of the opposition was surprising. Against Williams were 19 Democrats, most of them from the South, and 33 Republicans. On his side were 31 Democrats, 1 Progressive, 4 Republicans. Not in nearly six years had a Presidential nomination been turned down.* For the anti-New Deal bloc it was a thumping victory; for the White House it was a stinging and perhaps significant defeat...
...lank, hard-bargaining hotelman named Conrad Nicholson Hilton, 59, longed to own something really big. Inevitably, his gaze fell upon the world's biggest hotel: Chicago's 2,700-room Stevens. Last week, for $7,500,000, Innkeeper Hilton proudly added the Chicago colossus to his string of 13 hotels (including Manhattan's Plaza and Roosevelt, and Los Angeles' swank Town House...