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...Army Commander of the Hawaiian Department, Lieut. General Delos Carleton Emmons, 53, Chief of the Air Force Combat Command, a flyer since 1917 (4,000 hours plus), a hard-riding perfectionist, tough as parachute silk. This appointment significantly put a flyer in command of all Army forces in Hawaii...
...legend at the Disney studios. He arrived there in manuscript form (authors: Helen Aberson & Harold Pearl) in the spring of 1939. Everyone was feeling out of sorts. They had shot the works on Pinocchio and Fantasia. Disney's artists were tired of tracing blueprints for their prodigal perfectionist boss. They wanted a chance to express themselves...
...boast of Consolidated's F.O. is that it has never lost a ship in delivery. In large part, that record is due to its crack personnel, picked by Learman and Rogers. But the prime reason, as F.O. and all Consolidated knows, is that they are working for a perfectionist, and that with him it is only performance that counts. Rube Fleet's favorite aphorism is painted on the outside of the factory wall, in letters twelve feet high: NOTHING SHORT OF RIGHT IS RIGHT...
...Philippines it is too hot). At 50 he relaxed the temperance pledge given his mother, now drinks occasional light wines. He also relaxed his golf from 36 holes three times a week to 18 holes. But he is still a walking edition of Bartlett's Quotations, still a perfectionist in grammar, spelling, punctuation. (Result of this finickiness is a shining absence in the Free Press of the bamboo English that creeps into most Far Eastern English-language papers.) Moreover, he intends to run his paper as long as he lives and will it to his second-in-command...
Except for his moonface, Young Bobby is as unlike his father as tee and green. At 14, the Old Man was short and chubby. Young Bobby is nearly six feet tall, weighs 195 Ib. At 14, the Old Man was already a perfectionist, with eight years of painstaking practice behind him. When he made a sour shot, he would turn purple, talk purple, fling his club toward the next county. Young Bobby is happy-go-lucky, prone to grin rather than groan when he misses a three-foot putt. At 14, the Old Man could break 70.* Young Bobby...