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...attempt to see history through Indian eyes, Brown liberally enlists the embittered eloquence of the Indians themselves. Following the cliché, most of them actually do speak "with heavy hearts" about their betrayals. Some, like Chief Joseph of the Nez Percés. are sharply ironic. "We do not want churches," he told a white agent. "They will teach us to quarrel about God. We may quarrel with men sometimes about things on this earth, but we never quarrel about...
...cold, snowy mountains of Montana, just 30 miles south of the Canadian border, a weary Indian leader of the Nez Percé tribe slowly rode up a hill where U.S. cavalry soldiers waited. Dismounting, Chief Joseph handed Colonel Nelson Miles his rifle and spoke: "I am tired of fighting. Our chiefs are killed . . . The old men are all dead . . . The little children are freezing to death. My people, some of them, have run away to the hills and have no blankets, no food; I want to have time to look for my children and see how many I can find...
...American Mom since Philip Wylie (in Generation of Vipers) held her over his hot temper and roasted her to a charred turn. The story behind the breakfastless children, the experts reported, is that Mom is a slugabed who refuses to get up in time to scramble the eggs and perc the coffee. Furthermore, the survey showed, many teen-age girls are scared by diet-conscious mothers into skipping breakfast. Then, after the breakfastless daughter goes off to school, Mom rises late, stuffs herself and gets fatter day by day. The nutritionists' remedy: less eating, more cooking by mother...
Slip of the Hand. But when Perc and his brothers branched out into the beauty business in 1933, in a pink-brocaded, chromium and black-glass salon on Sunset Boulevard, their, hand slipped. None had any business sense. The House of Westmore almost folded before they hired a businessman, S. Willard Isaacs, former owner of a local beauty-shop chain, to run it. He still runs the House of Westmore. Last year it grossed $2,225,000 from the sale of Westmore products, $300,000 more from the salon, paid the brothers both salaries and handsome dividends...
Through their pending deal with Rank, the Westmores hope to take a long step toward becoming the world's biggest sellers of cosmetics. But even the present size of the business leaves Perc a little dumbfounded. Said he: "This is all pretty silly. We're really just a bunch of lucky barbers...