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...smoking Orlando Winfield Wilson, 59, California-educated and veteran of 19 years of police work, pioneered much of modern police technology (two-way radio nets, three-wheeler motorcycles, lie detectors, police schools, etc.) during the eleven years (1928-39) he spent building the Wichita, Kans. force into a model outfit. A World War II colonel in the U.S. Army, he organized military police systems in England and Italy, later Germany. As dean of the University of California's School of Criminology in Berkeley, Wilson was called in by 13 North American cities from Birmingham to Vancouver, B.C. to reorganize...
...guts." Comic Shelley Berman chimed in with a call for Paar's fans to march on Radio City with pitchforks. Later, Bean struggled to get the thing into better perspective. "Listen," he said, "the network doesn't stink as a network. It stinks as a human relationship outfit...
Soon the human relations outfit had to make a public relations decision: Should the tape containing Paar's walkout and all the criticism of NBC be put on the air? It should, decided NBC, and to show how human it could be, it even invited the public to be sure to tune...
...Countdown. It all began in 1957 when the null people of Brigham City heard without much interest that an East Coast outfit with a peculiar name, Thiokol Chemical Corp., planned to build some sort of plant on a nearby desert. Few realized that the newcomer would turn their isolated, sheep-and-sugar-beet town into a booming center of U.S. rocketry. Today the rocket plant's employees number more than 3,000, flood Brigham City's roads with traffic and its schools with children. Ranch-style homes for engineers, chemists, physicists and mathematicians are spreading into the beet...
...richly curled tresses, a wave of his 5-in.-long fingernails painted red, white and blue; collected enough money by the ritual of sitting in the "money well" or forming the "Sweet Daddy Grace Line" to afford a coffee plantation in Brazil, a chicken farm in Cuba, a cosmetic outfit that sells Daddy Grace Cold Cream ; exuded so much love of a sort that he barely escaped conviction for income tax evasion and violation of the Mann Act; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles...