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...that lady there-that's my mother, folks." Murmured an onlooker: "Chris is a good oP boy, and Arkansas people like a man to be a good ol' boy. There's nobody can sound more country than Chris. He's a good oP boy." Plain Talker. Though good oP Chris Finkbeiner made hay in Warren, it was Lee Ward ("He'd be a cinch if Lee was his last name") who hit pay dirt in Jonesboro, simply by taking on Orval Faubus in a tough, plain-talking speech. "The real reason why Orval Faubus occupied...
Birdhouse Builder Stone was no go-getting boy. A slow, sweet talker, he loved to hang around all day at the soda fountain. After his mother's death, in 1920 he ambled onto the University of Arkansas, where he was immensely popular and immensely relaxed. "I guess all the boys were lazy," recalls a college chum, "but Ed was more than ordinary lazy." Arkansas' U.S. Senator James William Fulbright, then a lowerclassman and later president of the university, gives Ed full marks as a storyteller and cartoonist. Beyond that, Stone seemed content to remain a lady...
...catchy lines, she wonderfully brightens her early scenes with a blend of Bohemian bluntness and Bronx cheer. But she can manage emotion too, and inner perception, and suffering she wants to conceal. In a far weaker part-being virtually a straight man in comedy scenes, and a rather literary talker in serious ones-Actor Fonda can only, very often, be adroitly dull...
...year-old Merlyn Stuart Pitzele (pronounced Pit-sell-lee), the rewards of a lifetime in and around the labor movement have been considerable. A natty dresser and nifty talker, Pitzele is Business Week labor editor, was Dwight Eisenhower's labor adviser, served as Tom Dewey's New York State Mediation Board chairman. Last week, appearing in the McClellan committee's investigation of labor-relations Wheeler-Dealer Nathan Shefferman (TIME, Nov. 4), Mel Pitzele owned up to still another reward. While he was editing stories, advising Ike and mediating labor disputes, he was also collecting...
...flaking, bomb-scarred barracks near the imposing Frankfurt headquarters from which Allied commanders bossed the U.S. and British zones of occupied Germany. "There sat the economics adviser to the conquerors,'' recalls one caller, "almost like a dog on a chain.'' The professor was a torrential talker. To all comers he talked and talked, in the midst of Frankfurt's flattened wreckage, of free private enterprise and the mechanism of Marktwirtschaft, the free-market economy...