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...right, above elbow) case. He had studied the latest techniques at New York City's Institute for the Crippled and Disabled, and he arrived in Korea with three spare arms for himself, plus 60 second-hand legs and the makings-joints, screws, webbing, leather strapping, billets of English willow -for 80 more. He was also ready to set up a limb-manufacturing plant in Korea...
...climaxes. Even so, her phrasing was such a delicate tracery of lovely lights and shades that the other singers sounded colorless by comparison. In the last act, she finally showed why she is compared with such legendary sopranos as Galli-Curci and Claudia Muzio: she sang parts of Willow, Willow, the Ave Maria, and particularly her dying phrases, with ravishing warmth and richness...
...Wharton School of Finance, but left after one semester to enlist in the Navy. For three years (including ten months in the Pacific) Leader was a World War II supply officer. After the war he returned to York County and (with the help of a G.I. loan ) bought Willow Brook Farm, a 28-acre outfit with a tidy 80-year-old brick house and an operating hatchery just 15 miles from his birthplace. After a grinding first year, Willow Brook Farm paid off handsomely. Leader now sells more than 1,000,000 chicks and 60,000 broilers each year...
Mary Leader looks after the three young Leaders and takes care of Willow Brook's books, clattering out the accounts on her typewriter and balancing the books until midnight, most nights, while George relaxes in front of the TV set. (His favorite performers: Imogene Coca, Sid Caesar, Sam Levenson...
Losing Constructively. George Leader's long leap from Willow Brook Farm to the Statehouse in Harrisburg could only happen in Pennsylvania politics. Last February, when the state's top Democrats met in Harrisburg to select a gubernatorial candidate, Leader was just an uninvited nonentity. On the face of it, the logical Democratic candidate was Philadelphia's District Attorney Richardson Dilworth, who had given John Fine a hard fight in the gubernatorial race of 1950. But Dilworth, and his friend, Philadelphia's Mayor Joseph Clark, were embroiled in a nasty intraparty battle over a new city charter...