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Lightning arced hotly around the stage in the lithe body of a girl in a metallic leotard (Matt Turney), rousing loiterers into dances that were alternately elegant, calculating or frenzied. Sometimes serious, Lightning was also full of the ironic wit with which Graham occasionally likes to prick the dance world's pretensions. The girl's coolest, most contained movements, for instance, often prompted her partners to shatter the mood with explosive, calisthenic displays...
Degrees of Ability. Eugene T. Turney Jr., president of Anodyne Inc., a nameplate manufacturer, was so impressed that he built a special plant in Florida to use mostly disabled workers. Other Florida businessmen, spurred on by former Governor LeRoy Collins, have started a carbon copy of Abilities called Abilities, Inc. of Florida under Viscardi's active guidance. Similar projects are under way in Japan, Australia, India, New Zealand and Canada. Viscardi estimates that more than 5,000,000 Americans who have disabilities of some kind could work, but last year fewer than 500,000 got work, and about...
...longed for RFC loans. Mrs. Young thereby trademarked the "mink coat" cycle of scandals. Another RFC beneficiary, the American Lithofold Corp., retained the Democratic National Committee's Bill Boyle-who resigned as national chairman after the fact became known. From American Lithofold came expensive cameras as "gifts" to Turney Gratz, an RFC official who became one of Boyle's top national committee aides. Assistant RFC Loan Manager Frank Prince and Matt Connelly. Other evidence showed that White House Personnel Aide Donald Dawson, one of the subjects of a Senate Committee report (which Harry Truman denounced as "asinine...
...Class football team, which for three years had won the University championship, and had beaten Yale the previous year, lost to the Elis, 12 to 7. The lineup included Hemminger, Mulford, Kiser, Robbins, Hartwell, Blowers, Turney, Taff, North, Long, and Sack...
...Turney Gratz, Kansas City friend of Democratic National Committee Chairman Bill Boyle, was called to the stand to explain about his income. During the four years that he was a second-rung executive in the RFC, Gratz said, Boyle had paid him $11,000 for "outside work." Boyle, at the time, was a private attorney representing, among others, clients trying to get RFC loans. Gratz insisted that he had earned the $11,000 by keeping Boyle's personal books and handling his investments after hours, although he was neither an accountant nor an investment expert. He admitted introducing hundreds...