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There, last week, the twins lay on operating tables placed side by side. Under spinal anesthesia, Leonard watched the surgeons use a dermatome (which looks and sounds like a malignant electric shaver) to remove six strips of skin, each about 3 by 9 inches, from his thighs, and graft them on to Leo's left leg. It took 3½ hours...
...waterfront hotel in Miami Beach. Fleisher's loan application had been turned down four times, but a few days after Flo and Chuck made their rounds, a loan for $1,100,000 went through RFC with no trouble. Reporter Steele dug up another fact: Fleisher had paid Chuck Shaver's former Washington law firm to handle his case before RFC, and Chuck, despite his Government job, was still listed on the firm stationery as an "associate." Shaver quickly retorted that he was an "inactive associate" at the time of the loan, that he and Flo had acted solely...
...Veep Alben Barkley, dressed in her outfit as an honorary Kentucky deputy sheriff, and the gun she held was pointed straight at the reader. Steele grinned; Flo Bratten had reason to draw a bead on him. He had just broken the story of how Mrs. Bratten and Charles Shaver, counsel for the Senate small business committee, had lobbied for a $1,100,000 RFC loan to build a Miami hotel. After Steele's beat, Shaver quit his Senate job, and congressional investigators began to look into the latest RFC scandal (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
Jack Steele, a deceptively jolly, roly-poly fellow, got his latest beat by his usual hard digging, plus a nose for news which sniffed something worth digging for. While skimming through the records of office calls of RFC officials, he ran across the names of Mrs. Bratten and Shaver. The references sounded harmless, but why were they mentioned at all? When Steele discovered that at the time of the visits, Shaver was listed as an associate in Chase & Williams, a Washington law firm, he thought he had something...
Evidence Found. He dredged up hints that Shaver and Mrs. Bratten had been interested in a hotel loan, followed the trail to Miami, Detroit and Minneapolis before clinching the fact that Chase & Williams represented the group seeking the loan. When Steele confronted Mrs. Bratten and Shaver with his evidence, they admitted they had tried to influence RFC. As usual, Steele did much of his news hounding by phone, a system he swears by. Says he: "People will tell you more over the telephone, sometimes, than they will when you're face to face with them...