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Bell's Napoleon. The man who put the stripling Bell system out ahead-and assured it of staying there-was Theodore N. Vail, a onetime Western Union telegrapher and Government mail superintendent who became general manager of the new Bell Telephone Co. when it was founded in 1878, later became president of A. T. & T. Vail won the biggest battle in the patent wars by proving that his old employer, Western Union, was infringing on Bell's invention, and forcing Western Union out of the telephone business. As the Bell interests developed through several companies, they bought Western...
...Died. Napoleon Lajoie, 83, baseball's most legendary second baseman, member of the Hall of Fame, whose 1901 batting average-.422-has never been equaled in the American League (and has since been topped only by Second Baseman Rogers Hornsby of the St. Louis Cardinals, who hit .424 in 1924); in Daytona Beach, Fla. Playing for the Philadelphia Nationals, the Philadelphia Athletics and Cleveland, the Big Frenchman (6 ft. 1 in., 195 Ibs.) was an unmatchably graceful fielder, rang up a .339 lifetime batting average, was one of eight men in baseball history to connect for more than...
...Santiago. He named his 26th of July movement for the day the attack failed, went into Mexican exile, returned to invade Oriente province with 81 men aboard the yacht Gramma on Dec. 2, 1956. Castro likes to sit about a campfire and talk military science, citing Rommel and Napoleon, and discussing romantic proposals for Cuba, e.g., a school-city for 20,000 children. In 1953 he called for nationalization of U.S.-owned public utilities in Cuba, land reform and industrial profit-sharing; he now calls these "radical ideas not good for Cuba." He goes on the assumption that Cuba must...
...Today he is Premier and President-elect of France's Fifth Republic and exercises more direct power over his country's affairs than any other democratically chosen leader in the Western world. "His personal prestige," says a British expert on France, "is higher than that of any Frenchman since Napoleon...
...that he had no use for moderates. "What about your Oliver Cromwell?" he shouted at British reporters. "Was he a moderate? No. He was a fanatic." Then, gesturing wildly, he exclaimed: "I'm ready for prison any time, whether it be Makarios' cell in the Seychelles or Napoleon's St. Helena. Even your Winston Churchill was an extremist at one point...