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...darted down to Washington to offer unsolicited but hortatory advice to Presidents-notably Franklin D. Roosevelt. He turned his awesome energy to charities and humanitarianism (Freedom House, National Conference of Christians and Jews), made a pile in the stock market, served as a CBS director, and worked as an unpaid assistant to Bernard Baruch on the U.N.'s Atomic Energy Commission. He was still a conspicuous figure at any major race meeting (disgruntled World staffers had always grumbled that he edited from the track), and when New York State legalized betting in 1934, Swope became chairman of the State...
While litigious, blonde Bobo Rockefeller was asked to cough up $2,547.92, awarded a Manhattan decorator in a suit over some unpaid bills, her cowpokin' ex-husband Winthrop augmented the family coffers by $171,000. At an auction on his Arkansas farm, attended by some 4,000 cattle lovers, Millionaire Winnie disposed of 39 prize Santa Gertrudis cows and bulls at an average price of $4,380 per head...
...dieting and rigorous physical conditioning, boosted his strength with massive doses of vitamins and six packages of Knox gelatin a day. Sundays he checked his progress with Mme. Lhevinne, or gave small private recitals for groups of friends. When he left for Moscow, his phone bill was unpaid and his Columbia Artists contract was running out, with no talk of a renewal...
...hygienic Swiss democracy). Sam tries to keep a cool head. He learns that he is taken for a Swiss named Anatol Ludwig Stiller, who disappeared six years ago. Stiller, it seems, callously abandoned his wife, Ballet Dancer Julika, when she was half dead with tuberculosis; he also left unpaid debts and broke Swiss law by failing, as a reservist, to ask the authorities for permission to leave the country. "I'm not Stiller!" Sam keeps shouting. But after Stiller's old conscript's uniform, much moth-eaten, is tried on Sam for size and found baggy...
Untidy Troops. Castro's unpaid volunteer troops form a disorganized, barebones partisan army. They wear blue jeans or khaki pants, Truman shirts or Eisenhower jackets. About 10% have modern weapons, Garands captured from the Cuban army. The rest carry .22-cal. target rifles, double-barreled shotguns, Belgian sporting rifles, Springfields, cheap nickel-plated revolvers, an occasional vintage Krag or Winchester. They also have a couple of dozen .30-cal. machine guns, a few mortars and Browning automatic rifles. Castro runs a tiny arms factory to make tin-can-sized grenades out of sheet metal, TNT and Scotch tape...