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...mansion has its own organ, swimming pool and bowling alley. A reserve colonel, he rose from private to major in World War I, was kept out of No. II by a heart murmur. He likes to sport the ribbons of the Silver Star and the Purple Heart in the lapel of his dinner jacket. Guggenheim says that as a boy he .had three ambitions: to win the English Derby, to marry a pretty woman and to be Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. He never won the Derby, gave up trying years ago. His fourth wife, Polly...
...September 1951), and greater loyalty from his top civilian assistants than even affable Robert Lovett (September 1951 to January 1953). Through it all, Engine Charlie remained soft-spoken and relaxed, with an inclination to lean back and look at the ceiling while cigarette ashes dropped on to the lapel of his coat. Within his Pentagon office, he was the picture of a man enjoying...
...cups of coffee, a few crackers, part of a chocolate bar. His output: upwards of 100,000 words on subjects ranging from offshore oil (the matter under debate) to horseback riding, to baloney (the edible kind). When his self-imposed ordeal was over, the pink rose in the lapel of Morse's dark blue suit was withered, but 52-year-old Maverick Morse himself was still sprightly enough to chat with reporters and pose smilingly for photographers before going to his office for a three-hour...
...threatened the undertaker with legal action, and demanded that he deliver the body to them in Galena, Kans. Boydstun, who had begun getting black looks from people in Comanche, hastened to oblige. He laid three dozen celluloid roses on Billy's chest, put a plastic boutonniere in his lapel, loaded the coffin into his hearse and took it to them. That night a handful of Billy's kin took him quietly to a rural cemetery at Lone Elm, Kans. and buried him by the light of flashlights. Said Undertaker Boydstun: "The deal backfired...
Nobel and Pulitzer prizes come to Cambridge with boring regularity. But David A. Berndt '55 of Adams House and Seekonk, Massachusetts is the first undergraduate to receive a Kellog Junior Ad-Maker Award. Berndt reveived a certification and lapel pin in yesterday's mail...