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...Such a Pipsqueak As I." As George tells it, his biggest splash in the news was the result of his doing a favor for a friend. After he quit the commissionership in 1938 and went to work recouping his fortune in private business, he continued to serve as unsalaried waterboy, choreboy and funnyman, first to Franklin Roosevelt, then to Harry Truman. In 1946 Truman asked him to serve on the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. "I must have been off my rocker," George recalls. "I should have said, 'Why pick on me? Let's load this onto...
Francis Patrick Matthews, who had made no splash in 15 months in office, is a mild-looking and prosperous Omaha lawyer, a good Democrat, a prominent Roman Catholic layman (a Papal Chamberlain with Cape and Sword), and a dedicated and fervent antiCommunist. One of the things he is not is a military strategist (he admitted, when he became Secretary, that his knowledge of naval affairs was confined to operating a rowboat). As Navy Secretary, he had apparently got to thinking of the danger of being Pearl...
...might be set to explode under water at about the same time as one dropped from the air. Its shock wave traveling through the water would crush the hulls of ships in port. A million tons of radioactive water thrown into the air would smash nearby piers and warehouses, splash on others farther away, making them unapproachable for weeks or months. A wind-borne mist laden with deadly radioactive particles would threaten survivors to leeward...
...Chicago, Perfume King (Tabu) J. Leslie Younghusband, whose Florida wedding to Dancer Mary Uhlmann made quite a social splash back in 1937 (Younghusband slugged one newspaperman behind the ear, threw another into the swimming pool), filed suit for divorce on the ground that fifth wife Mary had gone off and left...
...bronzed, broad-shouldered young men who turned up for the National A.A.U. swimming championships in Seattle last week, slender, mild-mannered John Birnie Marshall was easy to overlook. But there was no missing Australian-born John Marshall when he uncoiled for the mile race. For 20 minutes, the biggest splash in U.S. swimming since Johnny Weissmuller had spectators, officials and competitors watching hardly anybody else...