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...National War Labor Board's tall, blond arbitrator, Dean Young Berryman Smith, 54, of Columbia University, handed in a 2,000-word decision that should enable management in the future to speak in a voice raised at least one decibel above a whisper. Dean Smith was called to arbitrate an unauthorized C.I.O. walkout staged by Wright Aeronautical Corp. workers. Their grievance: they disliked a foundry assistant supervisor, Albert Knowles, and demanded that he be fired...
Around the Sub Base at Pearl Harbor, "Mush" Morton and the Wahoo were a legend. Mush, Kentucky-born, was a solid man with a shock of blond hair, a wrestler's shoulders and a jaw like a boulder. The Wahoo was a lean, sinister submarine...
Leonardo was a youth of great personal charm and extraordinary physical beauty which he paraded without reserve in the streets of Florence. Contemporaries picture him wearing a curly blond beard and walking in a short pink tunic while everyone else wore cloaks. He was proud to the point of arrogance, fastidious to the point of inhumanity. Evidence, including anonymous accusations, strongly suggests that Leonardo was a homosexual. Wrote the late Sigmund Freud in his Leonardo da Vinci: "In a period where there was a constant struggle between riotous licentiousness and gloomy asceticism, Leonardo presented an example of cool sexual rejection...
Fire and Fish. At 7:15 the lookout reported planes. Berlin started back toward the cockpit; it was already too late. The only thing he could do was lie down, so he stretched out on deck and calmly gave an order: "All right, general quarters." The port gunner, a blond youngster named Richard Dudziak, started to fire into the engine of an approaching plane. It looked like an American SBD but the location of two blue-burning exhausts meant a Jap torpedo plane. As the plane passed over, Skipper Berlin could almost reach and touch the red ball...
...week's end the A.P. at home was still in the dark about how tall, blond, able and amiable Daniel De Luce had got into Yugoslavia, how long he would be able to stay, how he was getting his dispatches out. Good guess was that he had gone in with some Allied officers who are known to have reached Partisan Army headquarters; that Allied torpedo boats probably tote his dispatches across the Adriatic Sea to Italy...