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From his London hotel window South Africa's Prime Minister can look across Hyde Park's greensward-too sleek and flat for one who loves to walk the rough sandstone of Table Mountain or the undulant, spacious land of the Transvaal. He breakfasts at leisure, on gift eggs from egg-rationed English friends. He listens to the radio's news, scans the Times, attends to cables and correspondence. By 10 o'clock he is ready for visitors in his big bay-windowed reception room. By n he has changed his slippers, buttoned up his red-tabbed...
Just before dark, the sleek, fast B-26 Marauder circled her English air base and slipped in to a smooth landing. Technical Sergeant William L. Stuart, a taciturn, red-haired Texan, heaved an eloquent sigh, rubbed his grease-stained hands together, got out his tools and prepared to go to work...
Herriman believed that animals are superior to human beings. He would never ride a horse. He tried to be a vegetarian, had to give it up when he became too weak. To the end of his life nearly all his ration points for meat went to satisfy the sleek gang of stray dogs and cats he took care...
...eared little U.S. Senator filled the tank of his sleek, grey Cadillac and drove 1,000 miles to address the Legislature of his own State. Home to campaign-for 1946-was Mississippi's red-necktied Theodore Gilmore ("The Man") Bilbo, who boasts, at 66, that ladies still find him fascinating ("I don't expect to reach my prime until...
Despite the Rube Goldbergish sound of some of his gadgets, Tom Saffady has cashed in heavily on his tinkering. At 27, he is owner and manager of Detroit's Sav-Way Industries. Frequently, he puts in as many as 16 hours a day in his sleek, paneled office, with its private bar, or in his four plants, humming with war contracts. Net income of his company last year: $400,000. Last week he had something besides inventions up his sleeve. He was working on a plan to cut his 600-odd employes in on profits...