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...days among business, education and culture. Carter serves as a director of Pacific TelePhone & Telegraph, Northrop, Southern California Edison, United-California Bank and Western Bancorporation, as a trustee of the Brookings Institution and Occidental College and as a director of the Stanford Research Institute. Though his rimless glasses and whisper-quiet voice give him the air of a professor (he once declined an offer from the Harvard Business School to become one), Carter is still a shrewd salesman. When he was asked to raise 12 million to help build the Los Angeles Art Museum, he persuaded 23 acquaintances to donate...
...word Calcutta to most Americans, and they think of saried Indians bathing in the Ganges and sacred cows basking in the middle of dirty thoroughfares. But say Calcutta to the member of a golf club, and he is apt to look nervously to either side and whisper, "Shhhh! How did you know we were having one this year?" Until 1955, a Calcutta was an integral -and often the most fun-part of every golf tournament. A few days before a member-member tournament, or on the night before a member-guest, a properly anointed auctioneer would "sell" each team...
...just wonderful," he recalls. "There was the Record-American ("Radcliffe Girls Blush at Harvard Disclosures," he remembered, drooling), and the rest of the Boston papers. When that got over with, I had to hunt a bit to find reading matter, but I finally picked up a copy of Whisper that had something about "Sex Perversions Rock Harvard." Once I'd found that the rest was easy. I worked through True, Gent, Look, See, Gasp, Startle, and Shudler that spring...
...votes for key programs. The President himself is almost always in the forefront of the persuaders. He is intimately aware of the progress of each bill, is posted on how each committee stands. Frequently, after a White House ceremony, he will gently guide a Congressman out of the crowd, whisper in his ear: "Now I want you to get interested in this . . ." It is astounding how often that particular Congressman gets interested...
...electronic gear. They rebuilt the horn meticulously, cleaned and aligned its joints, covered its seams smoothly with aluminum tape to reduce noise coming from imperfections. They made allowance for radio waves from the earth's atmosphere. After all that, the horn continued to catch a steady radio whisper that did not vary by day or night, winter or summer. It seemed to come from all directions with equal intensity...