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Harry Pulliam Cain, Republican from Washington, 44, tall, lean, friendly-and a lightweight. As early as 1947, he urged withdrawal of occupation forces from Germany, and an end to the denazification program. On occasion, he subjects the Senate to hammy theatrics and wild filibusters. Some of his Senate colleagues would be inclined to rate him as no more than a noisy nonentity if he were not something more bothersome-the real-estate lobby's warmest friend...
...Deseret News's dogmatism, that is, nevertheless, the reason for its success. The official voice of the church, the News is run by Editor and General Manager Mark Edward Petersen, 49, who is also one of the Twelve Apostles (a high governing body) of the Mormon Church. A lean, intense and handsome man, Petersen started out as a News cub at 20 and is still very much a newsman; his staffers' call him "Mark," instead of "Brother," as is customary with other high church dignitaries. Obedient to the Mormon "Word of Wisdom" no News staffer smokes or drinks...
...stockholders, Du Pont's lean, able President Crawford H. Greenewalt last week totted up the score on a year of "transition from a sellers' to a buyers' market." His cheerful finding: "No serious dislocation or detriment to the company's business...
Nobody else wanted the old sloop; for years she had been propped up and rotting away in a meadow not far from salt water. But lean, grizzle-bearded Captain Joshua Slocum desperately wanted the 36-footer, and he got her. By the time he had put in a year's work rebuilding the Spray into a staunch, well-found craft, he was ready to put to sea. One spring day in 1895, with only Slocum aboard, the Spray sailed out of Boston harbor on what turned out to be a 46,000-mile voyage. At 51, Joshua Slocum...
...skilled than inspired, they were the work of Edy Legrand, one of France's slickest book illustrators. Obviously determined to achieve an atmosphere of truth to nature and history, Artist Legrand had turned his back on the usual modern mishmash of beards, flowing sheets and halos, had drawn lean, Semitic men & women and placed them in landscapes as stark as the hills of Judea...