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...where Samuel Lapowski. his paternal grandfather, was born. Migrating to Texas after the Civil War. Lapowski set up shop as a clothier, first in San Antonio and later in Abilene, took his mother's maiden name of Dillon, prospered enough to send his only son Clarence to Harvard. Shrewd, smart and blessed with a good poker player's sense of timing, Clarence ("Baron") Dillon was the only boy in his class ('05 ) to own a car-and the one who perhaps drove ahead the farthest. The Baron was an authentic Wall Street genius: he built Dillon. Read...
...dusty border town of Zapata, the name of Manuel Medina, 52, stood for money and power. Son of a shrewd, up-from-the-adobe storekeeper, heavy-set "Don Manuel"-as everyone in town deferentially called him-owned the only bank in all Zapata County (pop. 4,400). He had also served eleven terms as county commissioner, piloted his younger brother Santos to the county judgeship, and for years ran Zapata's politics as a family fief. But last week Don Manuel's bank was closed down for lack of funds-and the whole county was flat broke...
...from over: that same year, Harry Truman appointed Smith U.S. Ambassador to Russia. In that cold war outpost, Smith was a frustrated forward observer. Emerging from the Kremlin one day, he snapped to reporters: "Molotov, three hours. No Stalin. No comment." But his analysis of the Russians was shrewd. The Communists, said Beedle Smith, "have read Von Clausewitz and they believe that war is merely politics transferred to another sphere...
...considerable achievement is its tone of total assurance: reading it. a dedicated Communist might easily convince himself that history was undeniably on his side, that all his sacrifices were worthwhile, all his masters humane and wise, all his enemies villainous. It was all there, from moral fervor to shrewd, selfish appeals, and there was a specious coherence to it all. But some might take a closer look at the fine print...
...four soldiers, two merit praise: Arthur Amsie's Polly Baker, growly, cigar-chomping, and shrewd, and Paul Marstow's (where would this summer's company have been without him?) Jeriah in the unfortunate temple robber betrayed by his mates. Tom Griffin is another one of the four; someday, perhaps, I will be able to understand what he is saying...