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...company of the able to the artistic, also moved on the edge of the same world. He was of a very different physique, tall-medium in height, with blue eyes, an inquisitive nose, sensual mouth, curly hair and alert fox-terrier expression. He was immensely energetic, a great talker, reader, boaster, walker, who swam like an otter and drank, not like a feckless undergraduate as Donald was apt to do, but like some Rabelaisian bottle-swiper whose thirst was unquenchable...
...Korean War: In 1951 Rear Admiral Burke commanded Cruiser Division Five in Korean waters. One officer remembers: "The old man really ran the show. He was his own chief of staff, his own intelligence officer, his own operations officer. He even was his own talker on the bridge. If a TBS (talk between ships) message came when he was on the bridge, you endangered your life if you got between him and the phone...
Because of successful moves to the Middle West, there has been more talk than usual this year about starting big-league baseball teams on the West Coast. Most fluent talker is bag-eyed Owner Phil Wrigley of the Chicago Cubs, who also owns the Los Angeles Angels. Last week Wrigley said to an interviewer: "Major league baseball is coming to Los Angeles awfully fast." Asked the interviewer: "Within two years?" Answered Wrigley: "Much faster. It's coming awfully fast...
...Distant Talker. American Telephone & Telegraph has started installing a "distant talking" telephone that picks up conversations within a radius of 5 ft. from the phone, thus permitting several persons to take part in a telephone conference. The set, which includes a microphone and loudspeaker, looks like a conventional phone, can be used by switching on a volume control switch. Price: $6 a month more than standard phones...
...soapy. Between complaints he discussed such affairs of state as Alaska statehood, the Montana primary election and antimonopoly features of the monopolistic Post Office Department. At 7:30 loose-jointed Bill Langer stumbled in. "Good morning, but I don't have time to talk now," said Talker Morse, and on he talked...