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...impatient with dogs and horses. Says Gussie himself: "Let's just say I was the original Peck's Bad Boy." He went to Fremont Public School in St. Louis, then tried Smith Academy, a private school. "Without doubt," says Busch, "I was the world's lousiest student. I never graduated from anything." Instead, Gussie Busch learned his lessons at the brewery, where he first went to work in 1922, just two years after Prohibition had staggered the industry...
Purpling at rumors that he plans to sell his St. Louis Cardinals baseball club, Beer (Budweiser) Baron August ("Gussie") Busch foamed: "This is the lousiest, dirtiest, meanest thing that has ever happened to me . . . Damn it, that's the biggest kick I get out of life any more-even when we have a season like this one." With the team in seventh place in the National League, Owner Busch was still aghast to consider his own fate if he were to sell it down the river: "My life wouldn't be worth a plugged nickel in St. Louis...
...Well, I'll Curl Up!" Reynolds loves adventure and publicity. In Shanghai, he created riots by giving away Reynolds pens. The expedition's plane developed engine trouble. The hailstorms mentioned in the ominous ode materialized, made flying impossible. Said Reynolds: "This may be called the lousiest, most disorganized expedition in history, but it will still be said: 'They made...
...compressed air from a portable tank, rescue men often face danger where "Boston firemen can't go in," according to one member of the staff. Workers often enter home-made gas chambers when an old-fashioned refrigerator breaks down and befumes the air, creating a problem firemen call the "lousiest...
...said to him: "Inside of two years they'll toss you out of your office window right on your face. And you'll land so hard you'll bounce." His friend had in mind the politics and pressures which swirl around "the country's second lousiest job." Colonel Charles Forbes had retired from the job in 1923 to a federal penitentiary, convicted of selling contracts. Forbes's successor, honest, penurious Brigadier General Frank T. Hines, had left with dignity but no glory...