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...Lawyer Fine had hung out his shingle in Wilkes-Barre, had enlisted and gone overseas in the A.E.F., studied at Dublin's Trinity College and come home again to Republican county politics. That year, T.R.'s ally, lean, aristocratic Gifford Pinchot, decided to run for governor of Pennsylvania. The great fighter for "conservation" against the heedless exploitation of the "robber barons" was Fine's political hero. Fine became Pinchot's state campaign manager...
Race Referee Clifford ("Tip") Goes shouted: "Ready all, row!" and 88 lean crewmen bent to it, pulling their lightweight (250 lbs.) toothpick shells in surging spurts over Syracuse's Lake Onondaga. It was the golden jubilee race of the Intercollegiate Rowing Association, once known as the Poughkeepsie Regatta, later shifted from the Hudson River to the Ohio (at Marietta), and now settled at Syracuse, out of reach of floods...
Italy's Joe DiMaggio is a lean (5 ft. 11 in., 156 Ibs.), hawk-nosed bicycle racer named Fausto Coppi. In 1949 Coppi won bicycling's two biggest races, the Tour de France and the Giro d'ltalia, and was acclaimed "the greatest rider of all time." But the 1950 season was one disaster after another, including a.broken collarbone and a cracked pelvis suffered in bike crashes. Last year Fausto tried a comeback. He suffered, instead, a tremendous setback when he saw his younger brother, Serse, killed in a spill...
...Vincent Astors, United Aircraft's Fred Rentschler and wife, the U.S. Lines' President John Franklin). Says he: "I get uneasy wondering what's going on up top." Though he abominates small talk, Manning has taught himself a few conversational gambits. One of them is to lean around a vase of flowers and say to the lady passenger opposite: "I can hardly tell which is the flower." Says Manning: "That always goes over...
...What can be done?" the Bureau Acts. "The Russians lean heavily on maternity benefits--through state creches for working mothers and state budget allowances--while Pravda constantly lauds extensive motherhood. We Americans, we hope, operate best through understanding and encouragement...