Word: pipeful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would give me great momentary satisfaction to hit a particular person I know over the head with a lead pipe...
...husky, wide-mouthed Treasury lawyer, with thick black hair framing a craggy Lincolnian face, who helped draft the Lend-Lease Act, will manage the enormous legal burden involved in British orders. Philip Young, son of General Electric's retired Owen D. (for nothing) Young, suave, polite, tweedy, pipe-puffing, also an ex-Treasury lawyer, will work with Cox, chubby J. C. Buckley, and blond, balding Alex Landgraf in planning, procuring, supervising production, shipment, whatever. These four, all 100% New Dealers, all young, tough-minded, aggressive, will be the Hopkins crew of odd-job men, sword-bearers, idea-factories...
Much U.S. book publishing is conducted with all the good fellowship, petty rivalry and corporate inefficiency of a college literary club. To many a youth, publishing offers the pleasantest excuse for smoking a bulldog pipe, wearing tweeds, meeting authors, reading books. Result is an amount of dilettantism that would soon bankrupt any less leisurely form of U.S. business...
Last week many a Manhattan publisher, sucking at his pipe, pondered just such a professional. One of Manhattan's youngest publishing houses continued to tick off sales of America's No. 1 non-fiction best seller. That publishing house is Alliance Book Corp. Its best seller is Jan Valtin's Out of the Night, which has already pushed beyond the 400,000 mark. The man who could tell them how it was done is Alliance's President Henry Gunther Koppell, 46, who in two years has steered Alliance from a resounding flop with its first novel...
...days, he once fought a mad dog. He has a nubile daughter who calls him "Daddy Frank"; his son is a war correspondent in Amsterdam. He is a liberal and a friend of labor, but no dastardly Red. He smokes now but his smoke is the manly pipe. He keeps up with the Brooklyn Dodgers in the sports pages...