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General Lee is middle-sized, thin-lipped, softspoken. He sports the proudest, fiercest thatch of mustache this side of London. His eyes are a pale, noncommittal blue, the right pupil marred by a splotch of white-a mark left by a polo ball 20 years...
...real Churchill eloquence came later, at a joint session of Congress which Senate Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley, who arranged it, will always consider one of his proudest accomplishments...
White-haired, toothless Sage Carver still sticks to his philosophy: "Save everything. From what you have make what you want." His gnarled hands are always busy with bits of string, tinfoil, clay, which he fashions, as he talks, into decorative objects. He is proudest of his picture of four peaches, painted with pigment made of native clay, not as a work of art but because any child, as a result of his researches, should be able to use similar material. "That's just the clay we walk on every day." says he. " Our clays are just as brilliant...
...Proudest 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...
...proudest in the land...