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...Treanor Jr., a husky, hardworking lawyer who caught the eye of SEC by the way he had run an FCC investigation of the telephone system. He joined SEC as a lawyer, succeeded Ganson Purcell (now head of SEC) as director of the Trading & Exchange division in 1941. A soft talker, who used SEC's big stick sparingly, he has been watching new issues...
...sure enough about it to bet about $10,000 on himself. Almost as big a plunger as he is a talker, brash Bobby says he offered to put the tour on a winner-take-all basis, but that Don couldn't see it. (The Budge version: Budge offered to split the profits 70-30 but Bobby preferred 60-40 because he "doesn't want to put his money where his mouth is.")* "It must be tough for Don," says Bobby sympathetically, "trying to get back...
...Napoleon, a big, rather fierce-looking boar of a Stalinesque taciturnity and resoluteness, and Snowball, an ingenious pig of Trotsky-esque vivacity and eloquence. There was also a somewhat Molotovish barrow named Squealer, "with very round cheeks, twinkling eyes, nimble movements, and a shrill voice. He was a brilliant talker, and when he was arguing some difficult point he had a way of skipping from side to side and whisking his tail which was somehow very persuasive...
...Being married to Dorothy was like living in the Herald Tribune city room." He once claimed: "She disappeared into the NBC building ten years ago." Dorothy is believed to have contributed to the portrait of "Winifred Homeward the Talking Woman" in Gideon Planish. "She was an automatic, self-starting talker. Any throng of more than two persons constituted a lecture audience for her, and at sight of them she mounted an imaginary platform, pushed aside an imaginary glass of ice water, and started a fervent address full of imaginary information about Conditions and Situations that lasted till the audience...
...their husbands' fighting guts that won me my four stars." Pre-Season Talk. When he sits in his high, steel chair on the flag bridge of a super-battleship, Halsey's wide, thin-lipped mouth with downturned corners looks tight enough. But he is a good talker in private conversation, he-man variety; his give-&-take with his top staff officers is free & easy...