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...mauve elegant, regularly made the lists of the nation's "Ten-Best-Dressed." (Once shouldered off the list by Harvard Prexy James B. Conant, Beebe cried: "Why, for years Conant has been notorious for his soup stains. He carries a whole carte du jour on his vest...
Less than three years ago, boyish, trigger-tempered Ted Nelson, 36, was an $11-a-day welder in San Francisco's Mare Island Navy Yard. His financial resources hardly bulged his vest pocket. Last week Ted Nelson, in his own spick-& -span new $330,000 San Leandro plant, received an Army-Navy E, topped off the celebration by announcing the opening of a second plant in Camden, NJ. in a few months. He had skyrocketed up on a Buck-Rogerish invention of his own, aptly dubbed the "rocket...
...unusual for three Administration czars, the White House, a horse owner and a suppliant hostess to phone him, all inside 20 minutes.) The sound of a buzzer, announcing a new caller, is stimulating to Bernie Baruch. He adjusts his hearing device, turns the battery in his vest pocket to full volume, and goes to work. He has a way of making all visitors, even the low liest, feel as if they are doing him a personal favor...
...protect himself against assault, he acquired a bodyguard, wore a bulletproof vest and an automatic. He got out just in time. He is somewhat touchy about the Pacific war, thinks that the U.S. is doing far too little in that theater, and has said...
...distance. He could not make out the tune. Then, in the corridor outside his apartment, he heard a muffled clomping. Opening the door, he beheld a large and handsome White Horse. "Yes?" said the Senator. The White Horse made no reply. Instead, drawing a watch from its vest pocket, it muttered, "Oh dear, I shall be too late," stepped into an open elevator shaft, and disappeared. Unhesitatingly the Senator followed...