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Magsaysay as presidential material, and Magsaysay liked the sound of it. It was soon no secret that Ramon Magsaysay was America's boy. For a time, U.S. Colonel Edward Lansdale of the U.S. Air Force took a desk in Magsaysay's Defense Office, became virtually his mentor and publicity man. Polished, precise William Lacey. Councillor of the U.S. Embassy, became the man to whom Magsaysay turned daily for counsel...
...annual meeting of the Associated Press Managing Editors in Chicago last week. U.S. sports editors made up a list of the ten tiredest cliches used in sports writing. The winners, in order: "mentor" (usually "cagy" or "genial"), "inked pact," "pay dirt," "circuit clout," "gonfalon," "roaring back or out or from behind." "outclassed but game" (with numerous variations), "clobber," "gridders" and "cage or cagers...
Lincoln Village is the realization of a ten-year-old dream for Murray Lincoln, 61, dedicated mentor of the U.S. cooperative movement and longtime (1920-48) boss of the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation, sixth biggest U.S. farm cooperative. Lincoln is going into housing as zealously as he first sold Ohio's individualistic farmers on the co-op movement and, later, on founding a variety of noncooperative corporations originally backed by co-op money. Today he is the $75,000-a-year president of the Farm Bureau Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. and eight subsidiary companies, including Peoples Development Co., which...
...money plentiful, there was no further need for it. But in its prime, RFC helped write some of the most important chapters in U.S. economic history. Set up by Herbert Hoover in 1932, RFC handled about $50 billion in funds, by the reckoning of its longtime (1932-45) mentor, Texas Banker Jesse Jones. Started with a capital of $500 million borrowed from the Treasury, it has since paid off $400 million of that amount, in addition has earned a net of $630 million from 643,000 loans totaling $17.8 billion. Items...
...audience. In Salt Lake City, where she was born, a player carried her on stage in a production called The Lost Child (Maude's mother, Annie Adams Kiskadden, was the leading lady). By the time she was 16, famed New York Producer Charles Frohman became Maude's mentor and manager. He helped create the shy, veiled creature whose personal life was an enigma. Frohman's order: "You are not to be interviewed. You are not to be quoted . . . People will wonder at you, yearn for the details of your private life . . . Let them. It will only spur...