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After Hitler. As a sculptor, Fritz Wotruba would have long since become a world figure if it had not been for Hitler and World War II. The son of a poor Czech tailor, Wotruba was put to work at 14 as a metal worker, took art lessons at night. Although he was 18 before he finally became a sculpture student, by 23 he had sold a major work, Monumental Giant, to the city of Vienna. But what was the beginning of a brilliant career was cut short by the arrival of Hitler, and the Nazi campaign against what they called...
...talent scouts. Behind a steel-plated door in the rear of his toney haberdashery, Racketeer Mickey Cohen began to peel off $100 bills and to the bemused gaze of Wiretapper Vaus, the long green "became a diamond ring for Alice, chromium accessories for my car, a new tailor-made suit, a hand-painted tie . . ." But the highlight of Jim's criminal career was a slick trick for improving his judgment of race horses. He would cut into the direct Teletype wire between a bookie and the race track, take the race results on his own Teletype, and signal...
...theory, air cargo is tailor-made for the U.S. economy. It permits companies to transport goods faster, thus cut down on expensive inventories and release valuable working capital for other uses. Warehousing and packaging costs can be cut; pilferage and damage are less of a problem, cutting insurance costs. By flying, a St. Louis shoe manufacturer has reduced inventories 50% for its store chain across the U.S., finds that savings are 3½ times the increased transportation costs. But most companies use air freight only for emergency orders or occasional shipments of highly perishable or specialized items (from ladybugs...
...bridge into southern Maryland, official Washington collapsed in "inert panic." Instead of directing pursuit of the assassin, the capital's police chief, who was in the audience and saw him, rushed off to tell his detectives to gather witnesses. Four soldiers bore the mortally wounded President to a tailor's house across from the theater. Word flashed that an attacker had stabbed Secretary of State Seward, bedridden by a recent accident. Washington's army commandant, General Christopher C. Augur, sent patrols out helter-skelter and waited for orders from his chief, Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton...
...campaign, now weighed an imposing 320 lbs. ("In campaigns now," he explained, "you don't make speeches, you just eat canapés"), and nowhere in Washington could he find a dress suit to wear to the President's congressional reception. After trying all the local tailors, resourceful Representative Tumulty hurried back to Jersey City to see a tailor he knew. While he was waiting for alterations, a photographer showed up, and Tumulty posed (see cut) for the latest published photograph of a politician in underpants.* After all, said Tumulty, "if Marilyn Monroe...