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...right after he landed in Havana, the first stop on a four-week good-will tour of the Caribbean and Central America. Instead of sticking to the usual bland official generalities, Nixon wowed his Cuban audience at Havana's military airport by confiding that he greatly admired the prowess of three eminent Cuban athletes: Washington Senators Pitcher Conrado Marrero, Chicago White Sox Outfielder Orestes Minoso and ex-Welterweight Champion Kid Gavilan...
...Twelfth-century Dorothy Diggs advised businessmen not to court ladies by boasting of "military prowess." If they did, the ladies would "point out that soldiers' calves are slender and their feet of modest dimensions, whereas [the businessman's] calves are fat." The courting gentleman was also faced with courtly dilemmas. Asked, for example, which half of his lady he would prefer to have if she were divided in two at the waist, it is fruitless to plump piously for the top half (in hope of being rewarded with the lower) because the lady would only point out coldly...
...appeared to me that the Committee's case was laughed right out of court by a display which was truly a performance worthy of the most exaggerated tales of the Harvard lawyer's prowess. It is to be hoped that the tactics of faculty counsel will be recognized as what they were, and that the Committee's practitioners will profit from an initiation under laughter rather than under fire. Furthermore, the Committee need not think their case was a complete failure, for "an enjoyable time was had by all." Joe Mullins...
There was another, perhaps more vicious and enduring, myth upon which McCarthy fed. Eisenhower's victory could not explode it. It was the myth of McCarthy's prowess. No man-especially no Senator (other than an "extreme left-wing bleeding heart")-dared stand against him. This myth, propagated mainly by anti-McCarthy "liberals," helped swell McCarthy's headlines, and, since head lines are a form of power, a gross exaggeration of power begot actual power...
...Winner. Last week, while Lamb prepared his answer to the charges, he was also busy giving another demonstration of his capitalistic prowess. This time it was in a fight for control of Toledo's Air-Way Electric Appliance Corp. (vacuum cleaners). Lamb teamed up with ex-Attorney General J. Howard McGrath, began buying Air-Way stock last spring to gain control. When the management found out about the plan, it tried to merge with Manhattan's Firth Carpet Co., but Lamb blocked the deal. Then Lamb went to court and forced the company to call a special shareholders...