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...Governor, Ellis Gibbs Arnall, 35, is the boy wonder of Georgia politics. Short (5 ft. 6), stocky (190 Ib.) pear-shaped, a great joiner and organizer, he got the urge for politicking from a grandfather in the Alabama Legislature. As a twelve-year-old, he worked as page boy in the Alabama House; less than 13 years later, he was a full-fledged member of Georgia's Legislature...
...Cossack took up his ax and called his 13-year-old grandson from a neighboring house: "Come here, grandson, and let us cut down the orchard and smash the beehives." Apple, pear and apricot trees laden with still unripe fruit fell one after another. "Pile it up in the street," the old man said. "Let anybody who wants take it, and what is left the armored tractors will crush to pulp when they come...
...Stocky, pear-shaped Ellis Gibbs Arnall got elected to the Georgia legislature just 13 years after he had worked as a page boy. At his first session, whizbang Arnall was named speaker pro tern...
...wide sheared-steel plate, now running short, a narrower plate produced in strip mills was substituted. Subcontracting was tackled hard by men like bull-shouldered, 300-lb. Charles E. Moore. A year ago, seizing on the bankrupt Joshua Hendy Iron Works, a dilapidated foundry in the middle of a pear orchard near Sunnyvale, Calif., Moore cleared off 34 acres of trees, put up 300,000 square feet of buildings, began to turn out mighty, two-story high, 271,000-lb., triple-expansion engines for the Liberty ships. Enough Hendy engines will have been produced...
Tumbling only at the last two gates on the Dollar Mountain slalom course, pert, pear-faced Cinemactress Claudette Colbert skied off with first-place honors in Class A in Sun Valley's first guest slalom race of the season. Her time for the 1-mile track...