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Surprising Sailor. The man everybody had to catch down the stretch was Lew Worsham, a sandy-haired, 29-year-old ex-sailor from Washington, D.C., one time pro at Burning Tree. A nervous chain-smoker, likable young Lew Worsham had taken his wife to St. Louis with him, but made her stay back in the clubhouse. When he faltered momentarily on the 17th in the final round, one onlooker said: "There goes $50,000." But Worsham spit on his hands, with newsreels grinding beside him and shot a par. That gave him a two-under...
...time being the problems were still in the hands of his advisers. Among them: Secretary of Labor Lew Schwellen-bach, Treasury Secretary John Snyder, Presidential Counsel Clark Clifford. Clifford produced the yardstick for measuring the labor bill: Does it disturb the rights of labor? According to his answer to this question, the President might or might not veto the Taft-Hartley bill...
...more of the U.S. Behind him was only one minor incident to disturb hemispheric solidarity. At a high-brass dinner in the Mexican Embassy, freshly applied gilt had come off the chairs onto the formal bottoms of such U.S. dignitaries as Senators Vandenberg and Connally, Secretary of Labor Lew Schwellenbach...
Benny knew how to fight with his head. His most famed rival, Lew Tendler, claimed that Benny had talked him out of the title by whispering disconcerting things between punches. Benny's version: "He caught me over the eye with a left and I felt my knees going under me. I said, That was a good punch, Lew.' I said it in a friendly, matter-of-fact tone of voice and it put the fight on a different plane. Lew snarled, 'Never mind that stuff, come on and fight.' But I stuck out a restraining hand...
...Lew Schwellenbach it seemed like a good week for it. During the 20 months that he had been Secretary of Labor, when the Administration was trying to get along with Russia, he had never made a single public utterance about U.S. Communists. Then a fortnight ago Lew learned of the line the President was going to take. He confided some of his own ideas to Harry Truman. The day before the speech on Greece, Lew appeared before the House labor committee...