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Just the sight of Sawyer in the glittering banquet hall made the N.A.M.s feel better. With his grey hair, rimless spectacles and prim manners he looked exactly like the businessman he once was. When Earl Bunting, N.A.M. chairman, introduced him as "a fellow whose mother probably called him Charlie," Sawyer smilingly set him straight: "My mother called me Charles...
...Traits. A big (6 ft. 1 in., 215 Ibs.), smiling, pink-cheeked, blue-eyed Westerner, with thinning grey hair and an easy, friendly manner, he specializes in the homely, forthright phrase, a booming laugh, and a bone-crushing handshake; wears well-tailored blue, grey or brown suits, flashy ties, rimless glasses or glasses with colorless horn rims. He has a standing order that his office door remain open to all callers. He is a joiner: the American Legion, the Elks, the Masons (33rd degree and past Grand Master of California), the Native Sons of the Golden West...
Romps on the Floor. A stocky man with twinkling, rimless glasses, Isaiah Bowman has run his university with grandfatherly firmness. He has often irritated trustees with his stubbornness, sometimes infuriated faculty members by prompting men regardless of seniority. Though he sometimes gets up at 2 a.m. and works until dawn, he always has time for children. Visitors often come upon him and his four grandchildren ("Gumdrops," he calls them), rolling and shrieking on the floor, while his wife ("Pistol Packin' Mamma") looks...
Scott had come to the little crossroads farming town, a year ago as a lay preacher for the new Methodist Church. He had a nose for sin. His eyes gleamed behind his rimless glasses, and his tongue was like a two-edged sword. He cried aloud for the citizens of Rose City to repent. They went to movies and dances, he stormed. While the kids played baseball on Sunday, he prayed in church for rain to stop them...
...interested and in all probability you will be the rest of the sheet is divided into two section: Classic and Modern. The Veterans Theatre people ask you which one you prefer and offer suggestions in each category. If your glasses are rimless and your suit shiny, you might stay with the "Classics" and choose Sophocles or Shakespeare or ask for Corneille in the original. If your father is a tie-salesman in Union Square, you'll find Odets given liberal recognition in the "Modern" section. And if you're one of those people who thinks "they're all so good...