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...shoulders are broad, his 16½-in. calves bulge with muscle, and at 171 lbs. he weighs fully 15 lbs. more than any of his competitors. Experts scoff at his size ("If he were lighter, he could run faster"), his racing tactics ("unscientific"), his graceless running style ("like a Sherman tank with overdrive"). But they all concede that, at 23, Peter Snell is the fastest middle-distance runner in track history...
...Kennedys. Jack and Jackie. Bobby and Ethel. Sarge and Eunice. Steve and Jean. Then comes a coterie of close friends: Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Bartlett. Mr. and Mrs. Chuck Spaulding. Mr. and Mrs. Rowland Evans Jr.. Sir David and Lady Ormsby-Gore. Senator and Mrs. John Sherman Cooper (he is a Republican, but Lorraine Cooper is expert at holding the intimate, 20-person, candlelight parties that the New Society is fond of). Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Alsop. William Walton. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Fay. the Radziwills. Mrs. John R. Fell. Mr. and Mrs. Earl E. T. Smith. Next come...
...others: Mrs. John Sherman Cooper (Ky.); Mrs. William Proxmire (Wis.); Mrs. Gale McGee (Wyo.); Mrs. Wallace F. Bennett (Utah); Mrs. Prescott Bush (Conn.): Mrs. John Williams...
Spayd became president of Standard in 1944, following the death of both Sherman brothers. He built up a hard-hitting, 750-man sales force whose members were chosen for their love of selling, and then stuffed full of technical data. At the company school, a hilltop mansion outside Dayton, all new Standard salesmen are given classroom training in business forms design, office systems analysis and paperwork simplification. The trainees live in isolation at the school, where the front door is locked promptly at midnight...
Taut Prose. But in spite of popular taste, prose writing was revamped in the North by men who had fought in the war. The battle memoirs of Sherman and Grant, "perfect in concision and clear ness," changed the "clogged and viscous prose" of the prewar days. In the heat of the war these commanders had no time for overblown eloquence. "Their role is to convince and direct," writes Wilson...