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...hero, Steve Canyon, would be a lean and squinty, older version of Terry; a fellow with an easy, insolent, Gary Cooperish grace that marked a breed of plainsmen, and airplanesmen. Canyon knew the world and its airlanes-and its women-as his granddaddy would have known the way stations on the Overland Trail. So he went into business on a shoestring as Horizons, Unlimited, and took for his trademark an old Navajo double-eagle design (see cover). His first customer would be a tough one: a wolverine of Wall Street, slinky Copper Calhoon...
...clock each weekday morning for nearly 14 years, Chicago's political reporters have trooped into the big, green-carpeted office on the fifth floor of City Hall. Big, genial Ed Kelly was there to greet them. He would usually lean back in his chair and start off his press conference with an Irish story. Then the boys would ask a few questions. Usually Ed would ask a few in return. The boss took great pride in his slogan: "I'm not only mayor of Chicago, I'm father...
...lean Fred Schultz, however, who provided the big Brown thrill late in the second half when his almost single-hauded offensive pulled Brunonia to within 11 points of the Crimson after they had trailed 29 to 47. Slightly worried Coach Barclay sent back Mariaschin and Future, who had been enjoying their only rest of the evening, and his charges swiftly put the game...
After two dozen secret nominating sessions, UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) finally agreed on a man for the top job. Their choice: Dr. Julian Sorell Huxley, 59, lean, wiry and brilliant British biologist who ran UNESCO in its warm-up stages...
Presiding and performing at this one-course feast is 50-year-old Pianist Alexander Brailowsky, a small, lean Russian. Like another great Chopinist, Ignace Paderewski, Brailowsky studied in Vienna under Leschetizky, but it was not until he was already a box-office favorite in Paris that he got the idea of giving all of the master's works...