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Nobody in Denver ever saw a salesman who could match bluff Fred Ward, 43, a 200-lb. slicker who "could talk a mole out of his hole." He blew into town in 1939, soon landed a job selling Dodges. In two years, he was selling more Dodges than anybody else in the region, set up his own business, Fred Ward Inc., and started selling Hudsons. Soon he was distributor for Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico and Nebraska...
...morning last week, after 53-year-old Jimmy had eaten breakfast, says Mama, "he just up and died." _ When Mama spread the word about Jimmy's last wish, 26 jazzmen called in, offering to play at his funeral. Four were chosen: Lee Collins and Jimmy Ilia, trumpets; Miff Mole, trombone; and Jimmy Granato, clarinet...
...jarring note at the family reunion was supplied, as usual, by the Russians, who took advance counsel with no one. Swarthy, cob-nosed Andrei Gromyko led his 39-man crew off their two private Pullmans at the Oakland mole. They had come directly across the U.S. from Manhattan, without the customary protocol swing through Washington. Gromyko was stopped momentarily when a grey-haired little woman thrust a bunch of red roses into his arms. Then he retreated, in a private limousine flying the hammer & sickle, to the 39-room mansion erected by California's railroad-building Crocker family...
...friends in Mexico," he beamed, "who are bound to me by the craziness of bullfights." Later, there was an informal buffet supper, where Ecuador's President and 600 other guests consumed 15 barbecued lambs, two calves, 30 turkeys, 5,000 tortillas, 60 kilograms of beans, 14 gallons of mole, six gallons of chili sauce, three barrels of pulque (Plaza drank two glasses and liked...
...professional people. . .the same strata in which Benedict Arnold moved so freely during the American Revolution." In the February 12 issue, one writer defines liberalism as "a potpourri of indiscriminant do-goodism trending into statism and blending indistinguishably into treason." In a later issue an article titled "The Red Mole" states that there is no non-Communist Left, "just a Left with Socialists, Communists, Liberals, Humanitarians, and Idealists. . . all mixed together...