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...from Brewster's enemy Howard Hughes. As a crusader, says Anderson, Pearson "had excused in allies what he pilloried in foes, had cut corners to get there first... had on occasion crossed the line into vindictiveness so as to keep the felled foe from getting up." Perhaps a Quaker idealism, the conviction, as Anderson says, that military people "should regard war as a catastrophe, not an opportunity," helps explain Pearson's unrelenting animus toward Douglas MacArthur, George Patton and James Forrestal. He thought them dangerous men. Back in the '30s MacArthur had sued Pearson for close...
...General under Richard Nixon, adds more chief executives to the list of Big John's supporters. Some of them: General Foods' James Ferguson, Southern Pacific's Benjamin Biaggini, H&R Block's Henry Bloch, Union Oil's Fred Hartley, Citicorp's Walter Wriston, Quaker Oats' Robert Stuart Jr., FMC Corp.'s Robert Malott, Borg-Warner's James F. Berg, Broyhill Furniture's Paul Broyhill, Textron's Joseph Collinson. Add to them presidents (Boeing Commercial Airplane's E.H. Boullioun, Occidental Petroleum's Joseph Baird) and former chief executives...
...Pompan turned the tide. Staying back at the baseline more often and serving powerfully, Pompan first pulled ahead with a service ace, then broke serve as a Robinson backhand went wide of the left baseline. With Robinson making more frequent errors and Pompan directing the ball repeatedly to the Quaker's limited backhand, the second set went to Pompan 6-1 after another service...
Perhaps Robinson's Quaker teammates should have taken a cue from their top player and tried to stop the show from going on at Palmer Dixon yesterday afternoon. For once the balls were out of the can, the match result was never in doubt as the Crimson easily served, volleyed and thundered their way past Penn with a 7-2 match...
...breaking Pompan's serve in the first game of the first set. Murray pulled ahead 2-0. Murray tried to give the game back to Pompan by volleying into the net three times on his next service, but the Crimson's California kid couldn't take advantage of the Quaker's miscues and dropped behind...