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...tougher the pressure gets, the better Chester Bowles seems to like it. A once-thwarted public servant and social thinker who has just come into his own, he loves his job. Where onetime Price Boss Leon Henderson let the heat frazzle his temper, where onetime Price Boss Prentiss Brown simply got out as fast as he could, Chester Bowles plows ahead with unconcealed pleasure, his big jaw jutting forward like the prow of one of the boats he used to sail in races to Bermuda...
...cars. The rest live in the suburbs and pursue suburban hobbies on their own time. They go to the movies and theater four times a month, opera and concerts rarely. They smoke hard (1¾ packs a day), and only two are teetotalers. Half of them have a servant, and one, the lucky fellow, has three...
...elected President. Harriman reacted to the New Deal like a weathercock in a gale. When other depression-struck railroads were frantically retrenching, he spent millions to give the Union Pacific low-priced dining service, comfortable day coaches, streamlined trains. He became an officer in NRA, and a devoted servant of the President...
...makes the creation of works of the highest art his sole and supreme business in life needs before all things a woman to be his servant, his mother, his nurse, his devotee, his housekeeper, and not at all necessarily his bedfellow. . . . As Watts could paint and sculpt in the grand manner as easily as other men can walk or talk, he must be ranked as one of the most fortunate of mortals and yet the most dependent on women...
When Oliver Cowdery, one of the faithful, indiscreetly started having revelations of his own, he was promptly rebuked by God in an unequivocal counter-revelation (via Joseph): "Behold, I say unto thee, Oliver ... no one shall be appointed to receive commandments and revelations in this Church, excepting my servant Joseph Smith...