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...Allen told Harry Truman that he was going to switch his lifelong political allegiance and vote for his good friend, Republican Dwight Eisenhower. Replied Truman: "Why, that's all right, George. I once voted for a Republican myself. He was a friend who served in my outfit in the Army." But it wasn't all right. Allen was as witty as ever, and as expert at the bridge table with Ike as he was at the poker table with Truman. He made Ike feel at home at Burning Tree golf course, has been host to the Eisenhowers...
WHEN Brower took over BBDO in 1957 from BBDO President Bernard Cornelius Duffy, it was like a batter following a home run by Babe Ruth. Ben Duffy, one of the shrewdest and best-liked admen ever to stroll Madison Avenue, had built BBDO from a smalltime outfit postwar into fourth place in the industry before he was forced to retire from active leadership after a stroke. No sooner had Brower taken over than he faced a passel of trouble. Revlon, Inc. pulled out its $7,000,000 account. Then, to avoid trouble with its $17 million American Tobacco account, BBDO...
...Mexican War.) Since the troop transports were commercially chartered, the skipper could choose his own disembarkation point, which ranged up to a half-mile offshore. The horses and mules panicked, with the result that the Rough Riders rode in name only. The first quasi action of Post's outfit was to rush up and relieve the Rough Riders who had got themselves ambushed, or, as an accompanying correspondent delicately put it: "The American troops met the Spaniards before they had expected...
...Post's outfit filed forward for the payoff battle of San Juan Hill, it seemed as if they were being reviewed by a long-legged, black-clad civilian on muleback who sported a red tie and a straw boater. It was William Randolph Hearst, whose yacht lay offshore. "Hey, Willie!" yelled the troops. The deadpan press lord managed only the ghost of a smile, doffed his boater and said mildly, "Boys, good luck be with...
...Were Home." They needed it. Even small wars are not complete without bungles. Brigadier General J. Ford Kent managed to maneuver three regiments, including Private Post and his outfit, onto a single cowpath over which a U.S. observation balloon served as a perfect marker for Spanish firepower. More than 400 men were killed or wounded at "Bloody Ford," and at one point Private Post found himself slipping on mud "made by the blood of the dead and wounded." When the men got to San Juan Hill, they rushed up as if it were "a football field when the game...