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...Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. In Wesson, Miss., the Enterprise carried a classified ad: "I am going to sell everything I can and will sell cheap. I have many odds and ends that will be a help to many as everything is so expensive. I have jewelry galore, a beautiful yo-yo bedspread that won first prize at the fair. Hoping I can sell out to go where I can be with someone, thanking one and all in advance...
...press conference that he too was a diplomat who owned a rod. Dulles was saying that he did not object to fingerprinting-a bureaucratic procedure that strikes Europeans as degrading. Why? Because he himself had submitted to fingerprinting every year to get a permit for his .38-cal. Smith & Wesson, serial number 242332. "What do you use a revolver for?" gasped one of the reporters. "Fortunately, I haven't had to use it at all," replied John Foster Dulles. He explained that Costa Rica's President (1917-19) Federico Tinoco had given him the pistol in 1917, when...
...year-old French poodle, Pepe, Dulles headed north to Lake Ontario's Duck Island for his first two-week vacation since joining President Eisenhower's Administration. Duck Island is in Canada, and Dulles has arrangements with the Canadian government that will protect him better than Smith & Wesson No. 242332 from foolish questioners...
...many a sorry dragon knows, Delta Pinney's Busy Bee liquor store, hard by a lonely El Paso alley, is a bristling castle. Instruments of defense: eight Smith & Wesson .38 pistols strategically sited behind the counter, one large shotgun-and long, lean Storekeeper Pinney, 57, who never loosed a lethal bullet during his three years on the El Paso police force, but has made up for it since. His record in nine holdups since 1940: three holdup men dead, eight wounded. None got a dime...
...stock. He won a seat on the board, forced a change in the way the company was leasing its oil lands, later sold most of Ohio Match's holdings for a fat profit. Simon also moved in and got control of Harbor Plywood Corp. and Wesson Oil, is now going into the McCall publishing company. In each case, he calls his opera tions "a technical service to management," rarely fights for complete control unless the company scorns his ideas...