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...tiny-5 ft. 3 in.-to compete physically, so he decided to lead with his right: he became a stenographer. The day before he was to compete in a worldwide shorthand contest, he broke an index finger. He worked his way around the injury by jamming his pen through a potato, then took dictation while holding the potato. At the age of 18, he was pronounced, potato and all, the best stenographer alive. Bernard Baruch took him on as a personal secretary, and William Rosenberg...
...autograph when asked, and readily discussed writing with perfect strangers -if they were not newsmen. In 1957 and 1958, he was the writer-in-residence at the University of Virginia, and in 1962 lectured on writing at West Point. Moreover, perhaps no major U.S. writer ever used his pen so diligently and profitably in so many different ways. After his first success with Sanctuary in 1932, he frequently worked in the movie factories in Hollywood, wrote formula short stories for the Saturday Evening Post, and occasionally knocked out a book review for the New Republic or American Mercury...
...Asian Development Bank. Then he told the House Ways and Means Committee that Congress should pass the Administration's new revenue proposals by March 15, "in order that all our taxpayers will have adequate notice and we can thus secure full compliance." And-with only one pen-he signed the new congressional session's first bill, a measure granting him a week's delay in delivering his economic message...
...bartered Russian furs, hides and caviar. Recalls Hammer: "Lenin called me to the Kremlin and said: 'We don't need doctors. We need Americans to do other things.' " Hammer became sales representative in Russia for 38 American companies, including Ford, Underwood, Allis Chalmers and Parker Pen. When he gave up his concessions nine years later, he had profited by-as he recollects it-some $9,000,000. He also sent back to the U.S. Russian art treasures to stock Manhattan's Hammer galleries, of which he is president...
Gimmicks dominate characters. One has the constant sensation of being on a movie set. Where Bond carries a pen-sized aqua lung, Miss Andress calls a crane to kidnap the beach-house Mastroianni is sleeping in. The gimmick is bigger than she is. The whole set, the whole movie, become one tiresome gimmick...