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...baseball umpires, corset salesmen, jet pilots and bagel bakers dominate the screen. British panelists are more likely to be guessing at such occupations as winkle-washer, teapot-handler, kipper-packer, gentleman's gentleman, or sagger-maker's bottom knocker (a pottery worker). A strictly British question which suddenly narrows down the field: Are you nationalized...
Childhood: Grew up in Whittier, about 15 miles from Los Angeles, worked in father's gas station, delivered groceries. Favorite family anecdote: when Nixon was a boy, he read about the Teapot Dome scandal in the papers, told his mother: "When I get big, I'll be a lawyer they can't bribe...
...teeth gave Stuart trouble, and he never got the mouth to look quite right. As a result, the painting has a somewhat grandmotherly air-despite the sword which Washington seems to clutch for assurance as he extends a reassuring right hand. The vague resemblance of the figure to a teapot, with the arms serving for handle and spout, earned the picture a sneering title: "The Teapot Portrait...
During the spring the college atmosphere was explosive: Wilson died, the Teapot Dome scandal broke, and Copeland returned. The military admitted that you didn't have to take Military Science to play polo. Scared by the huge class of '27 the University decided early in March to limit the next year's freshman class...
...city room he sat with Tom O'Flaherty, a big Irishman with "a brisk sense of humor (always a heavy cross for a Communist)," and Fred Ellis, a blue-eyed sign painter from Illinois who did the Worker cartoons when Chambers had an idea (one idea: after Teapot Dome, Andy Mellon as September Morn in a pool...