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...added names to it all his years. "A liar, a thief, a drunkard, a traitor, a filthy-minded and salacious slut," he recorded, at 74, of a secretary fallen from his grace. The distinguished fared no better: he called Whitelaw Reid, owner of the New York Tribune, "a skunk, a eunuch, a missing link...
...Integration, God, Honor, Today) has severely harassed the already established poverty agency. In Syracuse, N.Y., Alinsky's apprentices trucked mobs to heckle a Republican mayor. In Detroit, his crowd distinguished itself by presenting the president of Wayne State University, of whom the Alinsky-ites disapprove, with a live skunk...
...Carl Kotchian, 51, a onetime Price Waterhouse accountant who is virtually Haughton's alter ego. And then there is Lockheed's biggest intangible asset, Vice President (for Advanced Projects) Clarence L. ("Kelly") Johnson, a $114,507-a-year (including bonuses) design genius who bosses the Burbank "skunk works," where Lockheed keeps its surprises a secret. Broadnosed, with piercing blue eyes and a bubbling humor, Johnson resembles a sober W. C. Fields. He decided to become a plane builder at twelve, joined Lockheed as soon as he won a master's in aeronautics from the University of Michigan...
...blood and a gentle look of surprise in their round eyes. Willie felt faint. His hand grasped the knife in his jeans. Willie split the trouts' bellies with his knife, washed them in the cold water of the brook, and wiped the blood off his knife with a skunk-cabbage leaf. She had red hair and her blouse was open between her breasts. The train was going through the tunnel and it made a glumph sound as it went in and the wail of the whistle came out way back there, whoo whoo whoooooo. He heard...
Died. Thornton Waldo Burgess, 91, bedtime storyteller who regaled the country's moppets for nearly half a century with 71 books (7,500,000 copies and some 15,000 hare-raising tales about Peter Rabbit, Jimmy Skunk, Reddy Fox and other denizens of the Green Meadow that were syndicated in nearly 100 U.S. newspapers; of malignant melanoma; in Hampden, Mass...