Word: slights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Personality: Greying, slight (5 ft. 8 in., 150 lbs.), he is shy, quiet, retiring. A nonsmoker and nondrinker, he likes to raise vegetables, walk Civil War battlefields, and take pictures with a prewar Kodak Bantam special ("Best camera Eastman ever made"). His soft Georgia voice takes on a rare commanding ring when he mentions the liberal social policies he has been writing about, arguing for, and putting to work for more than a quarter of a century. He constantly seeks a practical, private-enterprise solution to social problems, e.g., when he found in 1953 that federal employees had no group...
...About two hours before death it was decided to administer oxygen. The wrong valves were accidentally opened on the oxygen tank, with the result that a glass container exploded. A fragment of glass struck the President on the forehead, but, fortunately, with slight injury . . . During the last two hours of life the patient was attended by me alone, in the presence of the President and Mrs. Coolidge and a nurse. From time to time I examined the heart and was astounded by the President requesting that he be permitted to listen to the heart sounds...
Something like 4,000 Gehlen agents, some of whom served as German spies in World War II, are at work in Europe and Russia. Some range as far afield as Cairo, Istanbul and Madrid. Their chief, former Brigadier General Reinhard Gehlen, 52, is a slight, tight-lipped Prussian with a passion for anonymity. A Wehrmacht regular, Gehlen rose in World War II to become head of the "Enemy Army-East," the super-secret intelligence staff that evaluated the reports of a vast network of German agents ranging the Eastern front from Leningrad to the Caucasus. Because his realistic appraisals...
...color, drinks deeply in great, man-sized gulps, never sipping or swirling the beer in his mouth the way whisky or wine tasters do. "Ah," he will say quietly, "this is it," or, "No, no, the malt, the malt." Then he will order any one of a thousand slight changes to keep the various Anheuser-Busch brews uniform. After two hours of tasting. Brewmaster Schwaiger heads for home in a rosy glow of beer and good cigars. Says he: "And I think then that perhaps I have the very best job in all the world...
...million, and profits topping $12 million in 1954. At full capacity, his three breweries across the U.S. can produce 8,990,000 bbls. of beer annually, more than any other brewer. How 1955 will turn out is anyone's guess. For the first three months Schlitz held a slight lead, but now, with Budweiser sales soaring, Busch flatly predicts that his beer will win going away...