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...light pressure with his left on his well-wisher's right elbow, thus keeping the line moving. When someone launches an extended conversation, Kefauver seems to give undivided attention-but he grabs for the next hand in line. The resulting traffic pile-up generally gets rid of the talker...
...history. In his memoirs he referred to himself as "Lafayette," in the manner of Julius Caesar. He once claimed grandiloquently: "I have vanquished the King of England in his might, the King of France in his authority, the people in their fury. I shall not yield to Mirabeaij." Hanged Talker. The biographers docu ment Lafayette wherever history found him - which was at the dead center of the libertarian movement...
...Black, 66, who continues as chairman and chief executive officer. "Nev" Bauman joined the truck manufacturer 34 years ago; with a master's degree in engineering from the University of Michigan, he worked a while as an engineer, then found his niche in sales. A relaxed, persuasive talker, he kept selling and rising, and when Black came in to revive the sick company in 1935, he made Bauman sales vice president. Together the two men hiked White's sales from $20 million to $180 million. Bauman traveled nearly 2,000,000 miles for the company, today...
...factor in Estes Kefauver's spectacular victory was the difference that Minnesota Democrats found in the two candidates. In Adlai Stevenson many Minnesotans saw a precise talker without much to say, a philosophizer whose philosophy did not clearly emerge-a man they did not really like or even understand. In Estes Kefauver they saw a big, friendly, folksy politician whose comfortable generalities were easy to take and whose warm hand was easy to shake. As reporters combed over the bones of the Minnesota contest, one voter after another spoke of Kefauver as "a down-to-earth...
...ancient Académie took a bold step in amending its reputation for crusty conservatism by receiving into their august midst a literary figure as contentious as he is unpredictable. The new member: Jean Cocteau, poet, painter, novelist, dancer, movie producer (Blood of a Poet), playwright, poseur and talker. Now 66 and still savoring his reputation as France's esthetic enfant terrible, Cocteau in times past has taken a gamin's delight in cocking a snook at the stuffy academicians. But things change, he explained, and "one wants to be oneself and yet the opposite." Like others before...