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...greatest American woman." But he soon turned misanthropic. In columns that grew steadily more vitriolic, he referred to Roosevelt as a "feebleminded fuehrer," Eleanor as "La Boca Grande." He reserved his choicest venom for Harry Truman: "thin-lipped, a hater and not above offering you his hand to yank you off balance and work you over with a chair leg, pool cue or something out of his pocket." After the assassination attempt on Truman in 1950, Pegler berated "hypocrites" for getting excited. "I hope this will be a lesson to Truman," he wrote in a column that was killed...
...halfback abandoned pursuit of the ball for pursuit of his tormentor, and vengefully set about choking the aggressiveness out of him. But though spectators decorously booed Dawkins' unsportsmanlike lapse, there was wide rejoicing over the post-match shandy (a concoction of beer and lemonade) that the hitherto irreproachable Yank had at last displayed some evidence of human frailty...
...post as managing director of Britain's Monsanto Chemicals, Ltd., handsome, hard-working John C. Garrels Jr., 47, found himself the only Yank executive among 4,000 employees-and a pretty obvious one. After nine months spent boning up on Monsanto's British subsidiary, Garrels arrives in his paneled London office at a tradition-shattering 9 a.m. (at least an hour before most Britons), keeps his office door ajar (to "see who goes to the bathroom"), first-names his protocol-conscious associates. One of Garrels' big problems will be matching last year's record turnover...
...done her wrong, but she soon discovers to her horror that politics is perceptibly dirtier than prostitution. The state is owned by a pawky old politician (Wilfrid Hyde White) who rules it with an iron hand-strongly magnetized to pick up loose change. When the new Governor tries to yank the old boy's hand out of the till, a bomb explodes in his car. While he is recovering, the missus serves as acting Governor, and by the time she is through acting, the rascals are out and the state remolded nearer to the tart's desire...
...Having a tiger by the tail" is the way James Joseph Ling, 38, president of Dallas' Ling-Temco Electronics, Inc., describes his business operations; if he lets go, he may be eaten. Last week, giving the tiger's tail another yank, Jim Ling used his recently acquired majority interest in Dallas' Chance Vought Corp. to merge the 44-year-old aircraft company with Ling-Temco over the protests of Chance Vought officers and other stockholders. The merger creates a Texas-based aircraft, missile and electronics complex with a backlog of $300 million in orders. Ling, who once...