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...request, Nelson went before the committee to slug it out. He curved his surprised eyebrows and his padded chins over the witness table, puffed mightily on his pipe, gently tapped a paper of matches on the table to emphasize his points. Said he flatly: "The Committee is hampering us. ... You make men afraid to come down here. . . . Companies that are willing to sacrifice ... to have men come down here are afraid for them to come...
...Nova Scotia sea captain, George Cutten was a reporter, appletree seller, pipe fitter, football coach and Baptist minister before he became a college president. When he was 18, his uncle locked him in a room and refused to let him out until he would agree to go to college. George finally decided to go to play football. At Acadia College and at Yale he was a star center, worked his way by preaching at nearby churches, He got a divinity degree and Ph.D. in psychology, writing his thesis on The Psychology of Alcoholism, which fortified him for a lifelong avocation...
Next day the note-passing continued. Finally Knudsen and Hillman worked out a wishy-washy compromise which settled nothing. The big committee was disbanded. In its place was formed a subcommittee of three management and three labor men, with towering, pipe-smoking Cyrus Ching, industrial-relations director of United States Rubber Co. and a member of the old National Defense Mediation Board, as neutral chairman. To this group 0PM gave power to "assist" in conversion...
...superiors think him bright: he first came to public view in 1938 when he jumped 100 seniority places to become Director of Military Operations and Intelligence. He looks and sounds like a man with the juice of command in him: short, stocky, broad-shouldered, spruce, calm-voiced, neat, a pipe-smoker. He is a man of few words-"a most precise fellow," says a colleague-but the words are peppery and to the point; he once reported a three-hour Imperial war conference in eight lines...
...MacNeice, conspire to show what noble, or at the least persuasive, music words can make. Its critical discussions are written with an excess of the subsidized self-assurance peculiar to English professors. But none of that leaks into the anthology's text-which is like one great organ pipe, with the life-breath of generations blowing through...