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...curiously youngish man to be one of aviation's pioneers. A swank, dapper socialite who still flies often and badly, he is rich, independent, honest, can well afford to tread on many a famed toe, call many a spade by its rightful name. Some typical Loening evaluations...
While a smaller detachment proceeded to Puget Sound, the main force paused at San Francisco. Then spade-bearded, air minded Admiral Joseph Mason Reeves, one of the few Fleet Commanders-in-Chief to be distinguished with a second year's term, steamed into the Pacific at the head of his flotilla. With that, absolute censorship clapped down. On land, less than a dozen officers in the Navy's Operations Office at Washington knew with any accuracy the day-to-day whereabouts of the nation's first line of defense. "Confidential." Except for bare statistics, official Naval announcements...
...Because Titian knew both the house and the Pesaro family well, once painted a famous view of the building, the palace was decided upon as the ideal place to have a loan exhibition of Titians. Professor Barbantini who wrote the letters, pulled the wires and did most of the spade work to make the exhibition possible, had another name for his show. He called it a Tribute of Regret, that so many of the works of Venice's greatest master had been allowed to leave the city where they were painted...
...glaring spade-calling of such passages the Six-Year Plan may offend the squeamish for whom two-fisted Boss Calles cares nothing. In the words of General Cárdenas, the Plan lays down "a comprehensive program of action for 1) return of land to the villagers; 2) stimulation of education;* 3) improvement of public health; 4) promotion of irrigation; 5) extension of roads and railways and building up of our merchant marine; 6) industrialization of Mexico under close government control...
...Grand Hotels throughout Italy there was Alfredo Campione, their spade-bearded, up-from-busboy managing director. He it was who pulled that de luxe chain out of the hole after the War and he it was who managed to pay a 5% dividend last year when most of the world's hotels were lucky to pay taxes. Now 61, Hotelman Campione is one of the few holders of the order of the Cavaliére del Lavoro (Knight of Labor), awarded by the Crown to self-made Italians...