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Government: Tapped by President Eisenhower as Under Secretary of the Navy in 1953, Republican Gates was promoted to Secretary when Charles Thomas resigned in 1957. Known as a black-shoe, sea-blue navyman at home either behind a desk or on a deck, he helped guide the Navy through its heady revolution from guns to guided missiles, from props to jets, from steam to atom power. Businessman Gates also brought into the Navy the best electronic bookkeeping system of all the services, bucked the admirals to inaugurate a program under which talented but untrained enlisted men now take science courses...
...beer-bellied, golden-hearted. Godsend-payday paragon of the old-fashioned vices: civic irresponsibility and the right to shirk. Inevitably, the Internal Revenue Service (Tony Randall) tries to catch up with him. "I'd like to look at your books," says tight-lipped Tony, the perfect black-shoe bureaucrat. Douglas looks puzzled. "I don't do much reading," he replies. But Tony forges ahead, deeper and deeper into a slough of Southern hospitality...
Hazel-eyed Phil Ford was no novice at the entertainment game either. When he was a kid around Alameda, Calif., his aunt ran a dancing school, and the Depression saw him doing soft-shoe routines at small theaters to help buy the family groceries. World War II dumped him into the 84th Division, where the commanding general, Alexander Boiling, used to join Sergeant Ford in little skits. Chances are they also burdened Phil with his present style of humor. Sample...
Milo K. Fields, editor-publisher of the Glacier Reporter, used to worry that Tatsey's pungent reporting might draw libel suits. He worries no more. Most of Tatsey's neighbors-Mrs. Maggie Chief All Over, Francis B. (for Bull) Shoe, George Running Wolf Jr. and Sr.-complain only when they are ignored in his column. And the few who do mind Correspondent Tatsey's frank exposures get nowhere with Weasel Necklace, who doubles as a policeman on the 1,252,000-acre reservation. "I just tell them what's what," says Columnist-Cop Tatsey. "And that...
Guterman's students at Scranton's Hebrew Orthodox Center-from retired Shoe Salesman Morris Greenes, 92, to Accountant Irving Sicherman, 35-look upon their nightly hour of learning as a lot more than mental painting and papering. Every one signed up for his new class, which this week was beginning to study the Talmud all over again...