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...combination. An economics major at Columbia, where he graduated in 1920, he handles the company's financing and mortgaging arrangements. Harold, a civil-engineering graduate of Cornell in 1925, is the detail man and boss of construction. Percy is voluble and high-strung; Harold is stolid and softspoken. Says he: "Percy makes the money and I spend...
Personality: Softspoken, stocky, with white-streaked black hair and heavy eyebrows, a conservative, old-line unionist who likes a round-table conference but dislikes public speechmaking. He is the Cabinet's only Roman Catholic, is vice president of the Catholic Conference on Industrial Problems, goes to Mass every morning even when he is traveling, does not swear, drink or smoke. He has three sons, four grandchildren, lives with his wife in suburban Chevy Chase, Md. The first Secretary of Labor drawn from labor's ranks since Herbert Hoover's Railroader Bill Doak, he favors unification...
Subdued and softspoken off the field, Schmitt sometimes winces when he reflects on his humor of the previous afternoon. He works hard at his trade and sometimes wonders if he is going at it in the right way. "I'm always trying to strike a balance between the funny stuff and hard work. Sometimes I wonder if I'm succeeding." A look at the record indicates that his technique has merit. When Schmitt came here in 1950 as an aide to Lloyd Jordan, the whole Harvard team was eating mud. The Crimson had scored one victory and lost eight times...
...does not seem made for gore & glory; he never looms, except in the ring. Apart from his flattened nose (which he broke playing football) and the inevitable scars above his eyes, he looks more like a compactly built college athlete than a fighter. He has the rich tan and softspoken, self-effacing manner (though not the grammar) of a children's swimming instructor at a country club. To strengthen his heavy weapons, Rocky wears out rubber balls with repeated squeezings, yet his handclasp is tentative as a pianist...
Georgian Dick Russell set forth on a 15-day invasion of the Midwest to try to demonstrate that "I am an American before I am a Southerner." At Omaha he said, "I have never been a sectional candidate," and plumped for high farm-price supports. Midwesterners liked his softspoken, courtly manners. "Too bad," said a party leader, "that he's not from some place like Ohio or Indiana...